Paul Lajos, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Amherst, NYNPI 1437342797
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 247 payments — averaging $74.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inari Medical, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
- BD$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6053%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6153%
- Travel & lodging$5,34229%
- Food & beverage$11,80364%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 62 | $3,633 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 47 | $3,308 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 22 | $2,556 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 16 | $1,554 |
| BD | 2 | $1,220 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 9 | $1,080 |
| Endologix LLC | 9 | $943 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $885 |
| Abbott | 22 | $701 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $592 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 6 | $340 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 7 | $289 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $229 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $164 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $113 |
| Stryker | 4 | $106 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $23 |
| Teleflex LLC | 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.
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$2,756
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$2,488
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$983
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$846
- RUBY Coil$796
- Endurant$776
- ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM$753
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$703
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$698
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$698
- ENDOCROSS Device$684
- Torus Stent Graft System$684
- Product in Development$502
- ESPRIT$369
- HawkOne$337
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$326
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$290
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$285
- Diamondback Peripheral$278
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$215
How this compares
$18,365 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 35 | $380 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 24 | $122 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Amherst
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Mathew WilliamsNew York$4.3M
- Nasser AltorkiNew York$2.2M
- Prasad AdusumilliNew York$2M
- Sanjay SamySyracuse$1.7M
- David AdamsNew York$1.6M
- Koji TakedaNew York$1.3M
- Gilbert TangNew York$1.2M
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$1.1M
- Chukwumere NwoguBuffalo$969K
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.