Michael Stoffman, MD
Neurological Surgery · Niagara Falls, NYNPI 1003847484
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $191,925 of the $279,350 with a category attached, or 68.7%. Aurora Spine, Inc. accounts for 98.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological 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 78 payments — averaging $3581.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aurora Spine, Inc.$274K
- Medtronic$2K
- Curiteva, Inc.$704
- Globus Medical$474
- Si-bone, Inc.$407
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$392
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$75,56927%
- Consulting fees$191,92569%
- Travel & lodging$8,4763%
- Food & beverage$3,3791%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora Spine, Inc. | 32 | $274,046 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $1,967 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 2 | $704 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $474 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $407 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 4 | $392 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 15 | $340 |
| Stryker | 3 | $254 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $217 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $163 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $125 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Avanos Medical | 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.
- ZIP$181,784
- DISCOVERY TINANO ACIF$79,536
- AURORA SPINE$12,726
- ATLANTIS ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$1,050
- O-ARM$875
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$608
- Senza$474
- Medical Devices$256
- Other - Miscellaneous$163
- Senza II$149
How this compares
$279,350 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 Niagara Falls
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
- Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- John PollinaWilliamsville$661K
- Michael GroffRochester$559K
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.