Peter Cospito
Interventional Cardiology · Schenectady, NYNPI 1396796736
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,915 of the $5,397 with a category attached, or 72.5%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 31.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,670 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $138 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $8,047.
Across 157 payments — averaging $34.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$684
- Boston Scientific$583
- Edwards Lifesciences$476
- Inari Medical, Inc.$283
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$278
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,44627%
- Food & beverage$3,91573%
- Education$361%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 20 | $1,704 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $684 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $583 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $476 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $283 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $278 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $249 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 26 | $218 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 11 | $148 |
| Amgen | 11 | $140 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $137 |
| Novartis | 9 | $114 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $99 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $70 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $66 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$5,397 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 382 interventional cardiology providers in New York.
Other interventional cardiology in Schenectady
- Sahil ParikhNew York$1.6M
- Deepak BhattNew York$1.6M
- Martin LeonNew York$1.5M
- Evan ShlofmitzRoslyn$951K
- Mohamed Azeem LatibBronx$816K
- Yili HuangElmhurst$699K
- Ali HaiderAstoria$492K
- Sripal BangaloreNew York$482K
- Ajay KirtaneNew York$462K
- David CohenRoslyn$392K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.