Stephen Goldstone
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (38.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Merck accounts for 68.0% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 244 payments — averaging $1583.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$263K
- THD America, Inc.$122K
- Covidien LP$1K
- Gilead$517
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$80
- Viiv Healthcare Company$62
- plus $51 from 1 others
Across 40 payments — averaging $6545.27 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Merck$190K
- Covidien LP$61K
- Medtronic$11K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$113,04829%
- Speaking & faculty fees$148,44838%
- Travel & lodging$117,69030%
- Food & beverage$7,1512%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 141 | $262,639 |
| THD America, Inc. | 72 | $121,683 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $1,305 |
| Gilead | 20 | $517 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $80 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 2 | $62 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
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.
- GARDASIL 9$149,957
- GARDASIL$46,246
How this compares
$386,336 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,596 surgery providers in New York.
Other surgery in Ny
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Benjamin SadowitzSyracuse$419K
- Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
- George DenotoManhasset$333K
- Marina KurianNew York$328K
- Megan JenkinsNew York$290K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.