Nirav Desai
Surgery · Roslyn Heights, NYNPI 1215293832
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (46.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 43.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $13,956 and has fallen 92.6% since, to $1,032 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 355 payments — averaging $86.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Medtronic$6K
- Intra-sana Laboratories$2K
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Teleflex LLC$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,72012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7502%
- Travel & lodging$6,18620%
- Food & beverage$14,12746%
- Education$5,88119%
- Gifts$300%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 80 | $13,306 |
| Medtronic | 51 | $6,177 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 3 | $1,614 |
| Novo Nordisk | 35 | $1,496 |
| Teleflex LLC | 23 | $1,432 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $1,385 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 13 | $1,183 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 29 | $514 |
| Teleflex Incorporated | 1 | $500 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 38 | $495 |
| Covidien LP | 15 | $484 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 18 | $376 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 6 | $318 |
| Teleflex Medical Incorporated | 2 | $270 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 17 | $267 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 2 | $241 |
| Novartis | 1 | $142 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $108 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $105 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $62 |
| Abbott | 1 | $54 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Stryker | 1 | $27 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,102
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- Signia$1,651
- Reltone 200 Mg$1,614
- Reltone 400 Mg$1,614
- SEAMGUARD$914
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$908
- Wegovy$804
- Saxenda$368
- Titan SGS$288
- Endo GIA$173
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$154
- PROMACTA$142
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$140
- Weck$135
- Talicia$125
- DERMABOND$122
- VICRYL$122
- PDS$122
- TITAN SGS BAILOUT CHUCK$106
How this compares
$30,694 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,596 surgery providers in New York.
Other surgery in Roslyn Heights
- Sajani ShahRoslyn Heights$72K
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Benjamin SadowitzSyracuse$419K
- Stephen GoldstoneNy$386K
- Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
- George DenotoManhasset$333K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.