Steven Batash
Gastroenterology · Rego Park, NYNPI 1225029242
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $124.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$10K
- AbbVie$336
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$207
- Gilead$166
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$125
- Pfizer$88
- plus $460 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,20084%
- Grants$290%
- Food & beverage$1,75616%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 7 | $9,602 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 20 | $336 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $207 |
| Gilead | 10 | $166 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $125 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $88 |
| Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 4 | $59 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 2 | $39 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Vivus LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 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
$10,984 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,682 gastroenterology providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 18 | $20,484 |
| Paroxetine ErParoxetine Hcl | 13 | $305 |
| Omeprazole | 19 | $243 |
| Aripiprazole | 13 | $100 |
| Topiramate | 17 | $99 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 13 | $46 |
| Lorazepam | 12 | $4 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Rego Park
- Michael GerdisYonkers$11.9M
- David HudesmanNew York$3.6M
- Ellen ScherlNew York$2.9M
- Igor GrosmanBrooklyn$2.8M
- Bruce SandsNew York$2.8M
- Arun SwaminathNew York$2.7M
- Sonal KumarNew York$2.3M
- David Carr LockeNew York$2.1M
- Arthur KornbluthNew York$1.9M
- Maya SrivastavaWilliamsville$1.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.