Linda Shore-Lesserson
Anesthesiology · New Hyde Park, NYNPI 1093790354
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $31,286 of the $42,348 with a category attached, or 73.9%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Instrumentation Laboratory Company at 34.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $13,073 and has fallen 53.2% since, to $6,125 in 2025. Among anesthesiology 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 49 payments — averaging $864.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Instrumentation Laboratory Company$14K
- CSL Behring$12K
- Biotest AG$4K
- Vifor (international) Ltd.$3K
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$3K
- Covidien LP$2K
- plus $5K from 11 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $18,731 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.
- Hemosonics LLC$39K
- Vertex$36K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,28674%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,9839%
- Travel & lodging$5,21412%
- Food & beverage$1,8664%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation Laboratory Company | 13 | $14,412 |
| CSL Behring | 11 | $12,111 |
| Biotest AG | 1 | $3,600 |
| Vifor (international) Ltd. | 1 | $2,766 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 5 | $2,599 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $2,173 |
| Accriva Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $2,100 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 5 | $1,349 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 2 | $287 |
| BD | 1 | $257 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $163 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $154 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $124 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $97 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
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.
- FIBRYGA & BALFAXAR$2,541
- BIS$2,090
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$1,279
- Quantra QPlus System$163
- Impella$154
- No Related Product$124
How this compares
$42,348 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,157 anesthesiology providers in New York.
Other anesthesiology in New Hyde Park
- 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.