Leo Hopkins
Neurological Surgery · Buffalo, NYNPI 1952370116
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by ownership interests: $723,358 of the $1,186,930 with a category attached, or 60.9%. Boston Scientific accounts for 92.3% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 21 payments — averaging $56,520 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1.1M
- Johnson & Johnson$88K
- Imperative Care, Inc$3K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$614
- Medtronic$414
Across 1 payment — averaging $399.00 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.
- Inspiremd Ltd$399
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$87,5007%
- Travel & lodging$2,5520%
- Food & beverage$1,5320%
- Ownership interest$723,35861%
- Other$371,98831%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $1,095,346 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $87,500 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 2 | $3,057 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $614 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $414 |
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
$1,186,930 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
Other neurological surgery in Buffalo
- Jason DaviesBuffalo$274K
- Kenneth SnyderBuffalo$96K
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
- 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.