Steven Gelb
Surgery · Syracuse, NYNPI 1437596830
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (58.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 87.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $48,783 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $126 in 2025. 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 704 payments — averaging $130.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$80K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$9K
- Medtronic$1K
- AbbVie$556
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$547
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$239
- plus $153 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0001%
- Travel & lodging$18,57920%
- Food & beverage$18,44620%
- Education$53,50058%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 611 | $80,120 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 59 | $8,772 |
| Medtronic | 16 | $1,153 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $556 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $547 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $239 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$91,539 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,596 surgery providers in New York.
Other surgery in Syracuse
- Benjamin SadowitzSyracuse$419K
- Kenneth CooperSyracuse$119K
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Stephen GoldstoneNy$386K
- Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
- George DenotoManhasset$333K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.