Joshua Melamed, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Lynbrook, NYNPI 1134570914
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,000 of the $6,540 with a category attached, or 61.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,246 and has fallen 80.7% since, to $1,012 in 2025.
Across 36 payments — averaging $181.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$554
- Medtronic$327
- Boston Scientific$150
- Steris Corporation$86
- Conmed Corporation$70
- plus $294 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$80712%
- Food & beverage$1,73327%
- Education$4,00061%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $5,060 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $554 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $327 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $150 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $86 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $70 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $67 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $48 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Merck | 1 | $27 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$6,540 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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Medicare billing
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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Lynbrook
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Gilbert TangNew York$842K
- Michael ZervosNew York$811K
- Israel JacobowitzBrooklyn$529K
- Elias ZiasNew York$465K
- Arthur MartellaRochester$431K
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$395K
- Eugene GrossiNew York$350K
- John GoncalvesMineola$332K
- Costas BizekisNew York$321K
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.