Ralph Darling, MD
Vascular Surgery · Albany, NYNPI 1174513956
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 378 payments — averaging $65.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$10K
- Cook Medical LLC$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$4K
- Cvrx, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$1K
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,0008%
- Grants$3,81315%
- Food & beverage$18,76075%
- Education$3101%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 227 | $10,086 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 6 | $3,910 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 39 | $3,881 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $2,000 |
| Boston Scientific | 48 | $1,350 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 23 | $1,156 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $403 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $359 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $307 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $245 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 4 | $226 |
| Stryker | 2 | $171 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $147 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $144 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $112 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 2 | $78 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $70 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 2 | $39 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 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.
- Abre$2,997
- Barostim Neo System$2,000
- HawkOne$1,173
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$856
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$720
- Endurant$549
- ENDURANT IIS$514
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$369
- C3 Delivery System$335
- IN.PACT AV$322
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$319
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$319
- VASCULAR$307
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$307
- HYDRO LEMAITRE VALVULOTOME$247
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$219
- RESTOREFLOW$215
- GORE ACUSEAL Cardiovascular Patch Vascular$212
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$206
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with PROPATEN Bioactive Surface$204
How this compares
$24,883 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 405 vascular 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 vascular surgery in Albany
- Jeffrey HnathAlbany$402K
- Kathleen OzsvathAlbany$183K
- Paul KreienbergAlbany$171K
- 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
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.