Nicholas Stafford
Vascular Surgery · Valhalla, NYNPI 1508495219
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 161 payments — averaging $53.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$914
- Endologix LLC$873
- Penumbra, Inc.$805
- Kerecis Limited$799
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,66289%
- Education$94411%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 15 | $1,772 |
| Medtronic | 48 | $1,541 |
| Boston Scientific | 40 | $914 |
| Endologix LLC | 10 | $873 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 14 | $805 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $799 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 10 | $690 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $317 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $218 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $191 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $129 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $110 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 3 | $72 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$2,069
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$1,137
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,125
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$799
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$549
- INTEGRA$489
- Penumbra System$363
- ENDURANT IIS$322
- GORE-TEX Vascular Graft$312
- Indigo System$276
- HawkOne$228
- Visi-Pro$215
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$191
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$191
- Grafts$173
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$163
- PRIMATRIX$163
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$161
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$150
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$141
How this compares
$8,606 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 405 vascular surgery providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 13 | $159 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Valhalla
- Gary GelbfishNew York$1.9M
- Sundaram RavikumarDobbs Ferry$1.8M
- Antonios GasparisHuntington$1.7M
- John LantisNew York$1.4M
- Sonya NoorBuffalo$1.2M
- Brian DerubertisNew York$1M
- Thomas MaldonadoNew York$1M
- James McKinseyNew York$750K
- Peter FariesNew York$639K
- Virendra PatelNew York$590K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.