Lance Kovar
Interventional Cardiology · West Nyack, NYNPI 1225057599
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 138 payments — averaging $41.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$949
- Edwards Lifesciences$782
- Boston Scientific$149
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$148
- plus $479 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,46426%
- Food & beverage$4,15773%
- Other$821%
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 | 42 | $1,803 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $1,393 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $949 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $782 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $149 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 19 | $148 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $109 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $82 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $39 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Novartis | 2 | $25 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 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.
- Carto 3 System$1,305
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$404
- Xience V coronary stent system$389
- Xience Sierra Coronary Stent System$193
- HawkOne$163
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$142
- CoreValve Evolut$126
- Optis Coronary Imaging System$122
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$117
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$104
How this compares
$5,703 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 382 interventional cardiology providers in New York.
Other interventional cardiology in West Nyack
- Martin LeonNew York$13.5M
- David CohenRoslyn$9.8M
- Susheel KodaliNew York$6M
- Mohamed Azeem LatibBronx$4.6M
- Richard ShlofmitzRoslyn$4.5M
- Deepak BhattNew York$4.1M
- Samin SharmaNew York$3.7M
- Annapoorna KiniNew York$3.5M
- Sahil ParikhNew York$2.7M
- George DangasNew York$2.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.