Kenneth Eckhert, MD
Surgery · West Seneca, NYNPI 1427026327
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 50.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,937 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $110 in 2025.
Across 103 payments — averaging $103.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$5K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$726
- TELA Bio, Inc.$199
- Covidien LP$149
- Medtronic$144
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,68044%
- Travel & lodging$2,28221%
- Food & beverage$3,67935%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $5,365 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 18 | $2,967 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 9 | $726 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $199 |
| Covidien LP | 8 | $149 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $144 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $130 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $109 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Abbott | 3 | $61 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $60 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $47 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Merck | 2 | $38 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $35 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $23 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $16 |
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.
- LINX Reflux Management System$5,029
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,662
- ESOPHYX$438
- Ovitex$136
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$124
- MICROLAP$109
- AIRSEAL$109
How this compares
$10,640 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,596 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $64 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in West Seneca
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Benjamin SadowitzSyracuse$419K
- Stephen GoldstoneNy$386K
- Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
- George DenotoManhasset$333K
- Marina KurianNew York$328K
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.