Has Mike Yao, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,318 in general payments to Mike Yao, MD across 28 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Mike Yao, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Mike Yao, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Mike Yao, MD

Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck · Hawthorne, NYNPI 1255342267

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,848 of the $2,318 with a category attached, or 79.7%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. at 50.6% of the total.

$2,318in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $82.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$1K
Axogen$262
Stryker$204
Smith+Nephew$201
Intersect ENT, Inc.$143
Johnson & Johnson$126
plus $210 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$47020%
Food & beverage$1,84880%

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
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	17	$1,172
Axogen	2	$262
Stryker	2	$204
Smith+Nephew	2	$201
Intersect ENT, Inc.	2	$143
Johnson & Johnson	1	$126
Medtronic	1	$110
Olympus America Inc.	1	$100

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

$2,318 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 45 plastic surgery within the head & neck providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$110,101

Medicare patients

168

Services billed

518

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	16	$159
Lidocaine Hcl ViscousLidocaine Hcl	11	$35

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other plastic surgery within the head & neck in Hawthorne

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Tali LandoHawthorne$919
Robert SchwarczNew York$188K
James MarottaSmithtown$69K
Roger KatzSyosset$28K
Robert LohmanBuffalo$21K
William BellesTonawanda$15K
Eric CohenNew York$9K
Anthony AlessiValhalla$7K

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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.

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