Richard Cass, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Merrick, NYNPI 1679967913
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 33 payments — averaging $49.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$565
- Davol Inc.$152
- Boston Scientific$142
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$133
- Novo Nordisk$130
- Lilly USA, LLC$110
- plus $397 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$56535%
- Food & beverage$1,06465%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $565 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $142 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 5 | $133 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $130 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $110 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 1 | $101 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $45 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $42 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $35 |
| Renalytix AI, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Merck | 1 | $24 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $23 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $22 |
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
$1,629 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 177 colon & rectal 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocortisone | 19 | $155 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Merrick
- David RivadeneiraWoodbury$271K
- Jerald WishnerMount Kisco$246K
- Joseph TerlizziNew York$245K
- Sanghyun KimNew York$154K
- Richard WhelanNew York$120K
- Jeffrey MilsomNew York$107K
- Ziad KronfolWest Nyack$81K
- Lynn OconnorHuntington$63K
- Mehraneh JafariNew York$50K
- Jennifer AgnewNew York$41K
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.