Has John Swinarski, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,935 in general payments to John Swinarski, DO across 386 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Swinarski, DO did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Swinarski, DO come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Swinarski, DO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Niagara Falls, NYNPI 1467711390

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,300 of the $12,935 with a category attached, or 87.4%. Abbott accounts for 75.0% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,209 and has fallen 79.9% since, to $845 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$12,935in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 386 payments — averaging $33.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$10K
Nevro Corp.$2K
Globus Medical$339
Boston Scientific$316
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$281
Curonix LLC$253
plus $376 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,41911%
Speaking & faculty fees$1501%
Travel & lodging$661%
Food & beverage$11,30087%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Abbott	312	$9,703
Nevro Corp.	37	$1,667
Globus Medical	4	$339
Boston Scientific	12	$316
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	4	$281
Curonix LLC	3	$253
Si-bone, Inc.	4	$124
Johnson & Johnson	3	$72
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$49
Avanos Medical	2	$41
Baxter Healthcare	1	$32
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$22
Stryker	1	$21
Bioventus LLC	1	$15

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,579
Proclaim DRG IPG$1,375
PROCLAIM$879
Omnia$633
Senza$539
ETERNA$168
COFLEX INTERLAMINAR TECHNOLOGY, 10MM$150
Axium$147
Proclaim IPG$146
OCTRODE$136
PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$134
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$127
Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$125
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$114

How this compares

$12,935 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 872 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$68,486

Medicare patients

129

Services billed

3,984

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	14	$1,029
Gabapentin	76	$903
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	28	$636
Baclofen	49	$551
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	28	$511
Meloxicam	73	$205
Amitriptyline Hcl	22	$173
Prednisone	34	$86

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Niagara Falls

Heidi FuscoNew York$153K
Geraldine DapulRochester$77K
Michael OdellNew York$67K
Craig AntellNew York$65K
Michael StubblefieldNew York$53K
Heakyung KimNew York$53K
Jeffrey BazarianRochester$47K
Martin SchaefferLiverpool$41K
Michael CicchettiWilliamsville$36K
Russell SilverNew York$34K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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