Steven Barone, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Williamsville, NYNPI 1447407036
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 32 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi Pasteur Inc. at 35.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,398 and has fallen 64.0% since, to $864 in 2025.
Across 76 payments — averaging $83.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$2K
- Distalmotion US$532
- Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$377
- Medtronic$306
- THD America, Inc.$243
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$241
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,11033%
- Travel & lodging$4497%
- Food & beverage$3,78960%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $2,235 |
| Distalmotion US | 5 | $532 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 4 | $377 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $306 |
| THD America, Inc. | 2 | $243 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $241 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $238 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $231 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $226 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $213 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $161 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 2 | $156 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $143 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $125 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $125 |
| Merck | 7 | $113 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $91 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $90 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $42 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $30 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Gilead | 1 | $19 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $15 |
| Kerecis Limited | 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.
- DISEASE STATE$2,235
- DEXTER L6 ROBOT$390
- FUJIFILM$355
- Axonics r-SNM System$238
- VISTASEAL$226
- ProGrip$147
- INSPIRA$138
- RESOLUTION CLIP$137
- RENASYS TOUCH$125
- AMNIOEXCEL$125
- TCC-EZ$125
- OMNIGRAFT$125
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$125
- PRIMATRIX$125
- PREVENA$118
- Echelon Powered Circular$115
- HARMONIC Product Family$115
- Echelon Flex$111
- ETHICON$111
- Echelon Circular$111
How this compares
$6,348 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 41 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Williamsville
- Joseph MillsWilliamsville$9K
- Bashir AttuwaybiWilliamsville$6K
- Mark FalvoWilliamsville$5K
- Timothy AdamsWilliamsville$4K
- David RivadeneiraWoodbury$271K
- Jerald WishnerMount Kisco$246K
- Sanghyun KimNew York$154K
- Ziad KronfolWest Nyack$81K
- Lynn OconnorHuntington$63K
- Mehraneh JafariNew York$50K
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.