M Ashraf, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Buffalo, NYNPI 1306802566
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 37 payments — averaging $62.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$734
- Boston Scientific$525
- Atricure, Inc.$448
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$105
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$95
- Medtronic$92
- plus $315 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$52523%
- Travel & lodging$84837%
- Food & beverage$91640%
- Education$251%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $734 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $525 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 9 | $448 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $95 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $92 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $86 |
| Stryker | 1 | $70 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $42 |
| Abbott | 1 | $26 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| Novartis | 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
$2,314 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Buffalo
- Chukwumere NwoguBuffalo$969K
- Nathaniel IvanickBuffalo$425K
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Mathew WilliamsNew York$4.3M
- Nasser AltorkiNew York$2.2M
- Prasad AdusumilliNew York$2M
- Sanjay SamySyracuse$1.7M
- David AdamsNew York$1.6M
- Koji TakedaNew York$1.3M
- Gilbert TangNew York$1.2M
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.