Lia Alvarez, MD
Anesthesiology · Staten Island, NYNPI 1396165890
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (51.0%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 51.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $904, more than ten times the $13 reported in 2019. Among anesthesiology 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 17 payments — averaging $81.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$711
- GE HealthCare$375
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$85
- BD$38
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$34
- Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$28
- plus $122 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$37527%
- Travel & lodging$71151%
- Food & beverage$30822%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $711 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $375 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| BD | 1 | $38 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| GSK | 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.
How this compares
$1,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,157 anesthesiology 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 anesthesiology in Staten Island
- Mark KronenfeldBrooklyn$2.4M
- Kiran PatelNew York$832K
- Karina GritsenkoBronx$665K
- Marc DicksteinNew York$585K
- Admir HadzicNew York$510K
- Christopher DimeoNew York$449K
- Christopher RieglerNew York$429K
- William UrmeyNew York$397K
- Sudhir DiwanNew York$255K
- Daniel KatzNew York$190K
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.