Richard Alexander
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Syracuse, NYNPI 1578563805
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 101 payments — averaging $36.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$891
- Intuitive Surgical$854
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$627
- Endologix LLC$334
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$188
- Edwards Lifesciences$144
- plus $685 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$872%
- Travel & lodging$85423%
- Food & beverage$2,78175%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 28 | $891 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $854 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 27 | $627 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $334 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 18 | $188 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $144 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 1 | $78 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $68 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $65 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $53 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $23 |
| Sanara Medtech 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.
How this compares
$3,722 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 383 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New York.
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Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Levetiracetam | 11 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Syracuse
- Sanjay SamySyracuse$1.7M
- Karikehalli DilipSyracuse$123K
- Aubrey GallowayNew York$5.7M
- Mathew WilliamsNew York$4.3M
- Nasser AltorkiNew York$2.2M
- Prasad AdusumilliNew York$2M
- David AdamsNew York$1.6M
- Koji TakedaNew York$1.3M
- Gilbert TangNew York$1.2M
- Isaac GeorgeNew York$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.