Ryan Bird
Vascular Surgery · Amherst, NYNPI 1043730492
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $74.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Endologix LLC$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$523
- Shape Memory Medical Inc.$124
- Philips North America LLC$117
- plus $845 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,75928%
- Food & beverage$4,38070%
- Education$962%
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 | 24 | $1,716 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 16 | $1,530 |
| Endologix LLC | 8 | $1,381 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 6 | $523 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 2 | $124 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $117 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $111 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $99 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $90 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 3 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $43 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $40 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $34 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $28 |
| Vertex | 1 | $28 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Hartmann USA, 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.
How this compares
$6,235 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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 Amherst
- 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
- James McKinseyNew York$750K
- Peter FariesNew York$639K
- Virendra PatelNew York$590K
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.