Mitchell Bernstein, MD
Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1447251095
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $33,398 of the $36,219 with a category attached, or 92.2%. Orthofix Medical, Inc. accounts for 95.8% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $17,393 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $362 in 2024. 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 36 payments — averaging $1006.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$35K
- Intuitive Surgical$643
- Smith+Nephew$210
- BD$208
- Virtual Incision Corporation$154
- Palette Life Sciences, Inc.$143
- plus $154 from 3 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $15,161 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.
- Bausch Health US, LLC$15K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$33,39892%
- Travel & lodging$1,1083%
- Food & beverage$1,0713%
- Education$6432%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 27 | $34,707 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $643 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $210 |
| BD | 2 | $208 |
| Virtual Incision Corporation | 1 | $154 |
| Palette Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Guard Medical Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
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.
- JUNIORTHO PLATING SYSTEM$18,720
- TrueLok$15,890
- Da Vinci Surgical System$643
- Taylor Spatial Frame$210
- Mira!$154
- Deflux$143
- Phasix Mesh$139
- TL-HEX TRUELOK HEXAPOD SYSTEM$124
- NPseal$111
- NPSEAL LARGE$111
- NPSEAL MEDIUM$111
How this compares
$36,219 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.