Kimon Bekelis, MD
Neurological Surgery · West Islip, NYNPI 1588808273
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $142,825 of the $147,403 with a category attached, or 96.9%. Hyperfine Research, Inc. accounts for 61.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $76,430 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $209 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 67 payments — averaging $2200.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Hyperfine Research, Inc.$90K
- Stryker$36K
- Hyperfine Operations, Inc.$20K
- Medtronic$308
- Imperative Care, Inc$235
- Abbott$124
- plus $321 from 7 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $8321.07 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.
- Stryker$17K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$142,82597%
- Travel & lodging$2,9032%
- Food & beverage$1,6751%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hyperfine Research, Inc. | 2 | $90,000 |
| Stryker | 40 | $36,414 |
| Hyperfine Operations, Inc. | 1 | $20,000 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $308 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 3 | $235 |
| Abbott | 2 | $124 |
| Amgen | 1 | $120 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $44 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Swoop$60,000
- SURPASS$33,238
- SURPASS EVOLVE$2,425
- NEUROFORM EZ 3$425
- NEUROFORM ATLAS$425
- Repatha$120
- TracStarLargeDistalPlatform$113
- Zoom88LargeDistalPlatform$113
- Zoom88_TLargeDitalPlatform$113
- ZoomReperfusionCatheter$113
- Penta SCS Leads$106
How this compares
$147,403 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 West Islip
- Salvatore ZavarellaWest Islip$161K
- 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
- John PollinaWilliamsville$661K
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.