Michael Varvara
Medical · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1578938874
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 229 payments — averaging $29.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$701
- Edwards Lifesciences$196
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$186
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$69
- plus $204 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,681100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 62 | $2,969 |
| Abbott | 119 | $2,356 |
| Boston Scientific | 27 | $701 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $196 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 7 | $186 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $69 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $24 |
| Bayer | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $3 |
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.
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$568
- Micra$553
- LINQ II$448
- HemoSphere$196
- ENSITE PRECISION$154
- AVEIR$153
How this compares
$6,681 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,395 medical providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 13 | $12,659 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other medical in Brooklyn
- Carl ClarkeBrooklyn$116K
- Catherine SekanskyBrooklyn$28K
- Phillip ScottiBrooklyn$22K
- Anna GorelikBrooklyn$15K
- Vita OklanderBrooklyn$13K
- Rebecca EllwoodAlbany$565K
- Denisse SerranoCortlandt Manor$255K
- Michele Kissous-HuntNew York$246K
- Laura MaroldoNew York$126K
- Maureen ThyneNew York$109K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.