Steven Schwaitzberg, MD
Surgery · Buffalo, NYNPI 1073620118
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 116 payments — averaging $330.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$9K
- CMR Surgical, Inc.$6K
- Kerecis Limited$6K
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Activ Surgical, Inc.$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- plus $6K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$24,17563%
- Travel & lodging$5,45514%
- Food & beverage$5,68215%
- Education$3,0008%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 16 | $9,438 |
| CMR Surgical, Inc. | 8 | $6,270 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $6,136 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $4,395 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $4,363 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $1,587 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 4 | $1,290 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 4 | $1,125 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 6 | $928 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $656 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 5 | $447 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $193 |
| New View Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $189 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $180 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $166 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $146 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $91 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $91 |
| Encision Inc | 1 | $89 |
| Endolumik, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $47 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Distalmotion US | 1 | $42 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $41 |
| Steris Corporation | 2 | $40 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $18 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Kerecis SurgiClose$16,546
- Versius Surgical System (Versius Plus)$6,069
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$6,000
- ActivSight$4,270
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,171
- Kerecis GraftGuide$4,136
- 1788$4,000
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$2,000
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$2,000
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$912
- GelPOINT V-Path$375
- VisionPort System$189
- MYOSURE TISSUE REMOVAL DEVICE$168
- CoolSeal Generator$168
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$148
- ESOPHYX$146
- LigaSure$137
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$127
- Saxenda$125
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$121
How this compares
$38,312 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,596 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 surgery in Buffalo
- Thom LoreeBuffalo$1M
- Vinod BalachandranNew York$3M
- Stephanie GoffNew York$2.7M
- Alice WeiNew York$2.3M
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Ajay PanchalAmherst$893K
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$814K
- Bonnie LonzeNew York$650K
- Stephen GoldstoneNy$647K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
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.