Justin Santarelli, MD
Neurological Surgery · Valhalla, NYNPI 1528226792
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (52.8%), food and beverage and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 37.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,037 and has fallen 88.1% since, to $361 in 2025.
Across 164 payments — averaging $52.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Microvention, Inc.$1K
- Phenox Inc.$546
- Stryker$255
- plus $480 from 6 others
Across 16 payments — averaging $9748.25 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$156K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,52553%
- Food & beverage$4,03547%
- Gifts$40%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 123 | $3,178 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 15 | $1,766 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $1,224 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 7 | $1,114 |
| Phenox Inc. | 3 | $546 |
| Stryker | 2 | $255 |
| Viz.ai, Inc. | 1 | $198 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $36 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $33 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Penumbra System$1,369
- Pulsar Vascular PulseRider Aneurysm Neck Reconstruction Device$1,148
- TRUFILL$1,148
- Covidien-Access$1,090
- WEB$969
- Pipeline$394
- Avenir Coils$328
- TARGET$255
- Solitaire$252
- Viz.AI LVO$198
- Avenir Coil$189
- Benchmark$101
- SOLITAIRE X$100
How this compares
$8,564 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
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 neurological surgery in Valhalla
- Dana AdkinsValhalla$163K
- Simon HanftValhalla$93K
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
- Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
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.