Linda Harris, MD
Vascular Surgery · Buffalo, NYNPI 1053339515
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,514 of the $16,508 with a category attached, or 69.7%. It is spread thinly across 40 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.7%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,742 and has fallen 51.1% since, to $1,829 in 2025.
Across 301 payments — averaging $54.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$1K
- Cook Medical LLC$890
- Shape Memory Medical Inc.$853
- plus $5K from 34 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $6788.23 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.
- Shape Memory Medical Inc.$43K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$38K
- KCI USA, Inc.$7K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,55015%
- Grants$2,35014%
- Travel & lodging$851%
- Food & beverage$11,51470%
- Education$100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 2 | $3,917 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 23 | $2,169 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 42 | $1,797 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 22 | $1,390 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $890 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 9 | $853 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 11 | $697 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 39 | $615 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 6 | $505 |
| Smith+Nephew | 23 | $373 |
| Pfizer | 19 | $356 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $336 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 11 | $305 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $238 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 5 | $203 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $187 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 10 | $185 |
| Philips North America LLC | 10 | $183 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 2 | $172 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 11 | $154 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $124 |
| Abbott | 4 | $124 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $83 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $75 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $65 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $53 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $37 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $33 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Stryker | 1 | $27 |
| Amgen | 1 | $24 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Cook Medical AAA$2,550
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$919
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$734
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$679
- IMPEDE EMBOLIZATION PLUG$647
- Indigo System$445
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$276
- Relay Plus$274
- Endurant$203
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$192
- IN.PACT Admiral$169
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$168
- EVERFLEX PROTEGE EVERFLEX$163
- Pounce Thrombectomy$159
- Pounce Venous Thrombectomy System$159
- Pounce Thrombectomy System$159
- Pounce LP Thrombectomy$159
- Pounce XL Thrombectomy$159
- Vascular Graft$149
- Penumbra System$148
How this compares
$16,508 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 405 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 17 | $21,082 |
| Cilostazol | 110 | $2,965 |
| Pentoxifylline | 31 | $780 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 47 | $719 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $615 | $21,08217 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 405 vascular surgery providers in New York.
Other vascular surgery in Buffalo
- Sonya NoorBuffalo$991K
- G Richard CurlBuffalo$73K
- Gary GelbfishNew York$1.9M
- Sundaram RavikumarDobbs Ferry$1.8M
- Antonios GasparisHuntington$1.5M
- John LantisNew York$922K
- Brian DerubertisNew York$714K
- James McKinseyNew York$616K
- Peter FariesNew York$494K
- Robert RheeBrooklyn$338K
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.