Michael Kaplitt, MD
Neurological Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1053331736
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $9,224 of the $11,446 with a category attached, or 80.6%. Novo Nordisk AS accounts for 80.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,383, more than ten times the $97 reported in 2019.
Across 18 payments — averaging $635.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk AS$9K
- Insightec,inc$2K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$169
- Medtronic$63
- Abbott$56
- Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$45
Across 10 payments — averaging $92,748 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.
- Insightec,ltd$927K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,22481%
- Travel & lodging$1,09110%
- Food & beverage$1,13210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk AS | 1 | $9,224 |
| Insightec,inc | 12 | $1,890 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $169 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $63 |
| Abbott | 1 | $56 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
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.
- Exablate$1,444
- CODMAN CERTAS$169
- CUSA CLARITY$169
- CODMAN HAKIM$169
- DURASEAL EXACT SPINAL SEALANT SYSTEM$169
How this compares
$11,446 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 446 neurological 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 neurological surgery in New York
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- Jan-Karl BurkhardtNew York$441K
- Dean ChouNew York$383K
- Reade DeleacyNew York$329K
- Johanna FifiNew York$326K
- David LangerNew York$258K
- Ali BaajNew York$240K
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.