Matthew Bott, MD
Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1194986612
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (54.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 62.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $20,004 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $309 in 2025. Among 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 115 payments — averaging $632.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$46K
- Merck$12K
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$8K
- AstraZeneca$6K
- Pfizer$400
- Medtronic$163
- plus $271 from 3 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $31,197 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.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$31K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,69926%
- Speaking & faculty fees$39,55054%
- Travel & lodging$9,50713%
- Food & beverage$4,4366%
- Education$5381%
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 | 90 | $45,502 |
| Merck | 12 | $12,302 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $7,634 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $6,459 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $400 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $163 |
| Stryker | 1 | $147 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $28 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$33,002
- DA VINCI SP$11,200
- IMFINZI$3,759
- TAGRISSO$2,700
- KEYTRUDA$380
- Signia$163
- 1788$147
How this compares
$72,731 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,596 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.
Other surgery in New York
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
- Marina KurianNew York$328K
- Megan JenkinsNew York$290K
- Brian JacobNew York$225K
- Robin BlackstoneNew York$174K
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.