Tomoaki Kato, MD
Transplant Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1629034517
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (46.9%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Transmedics, Inc. at 46.9% of the total.
Across 39 payments — averaging $223.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Transmedics, Inc.$4K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$312
- Olympus America Inc.$304
- Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)$202
- Stryker$172
- plus $1K from 14 others
Across 31 payments — averaging $4415.22 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.
- Transmedics, Inc.$74K
- Grifols Biologicals LLC$55K
- Grifols Therapeutics LLC$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,62530%
- Travel & lodging$4,08147%
- Food & beverage$2,00123%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Transmedics, Inc. | 6 | $4,081 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $2,625 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $312 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $304 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $202 |
| Stryker | 1 | $172 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 5 | $162 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $111 |
| Gilead | 1 | $108 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $92 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 1 | $83 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $58 |
| Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $47 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $35 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $33 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $22 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$4,081
- GATTEX$2,625
- 1688$172
- ENDOEYE FLEX 3D DEFLECTABLE VIDEOSCOPE$150
- THUNDERBEAT 5 mm,35 cm,Front-actuated Grip Type S$150
- Da Vinci Surgical System$127
- CODMAN CERTAS$125
- CUSA CLARITY$125
- CODMAN HAKIM$125
- DURASEAL EXACT SPINAL SEALANT SYSTEM$125
- VISERA ELITE II VIDEO SYSTEM CENTER OLYMPUS OTV-S300$125
- Epclusa$108
How this compares
$8,707 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 72 transplant 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 transplant surgery in New York
- Kishore IyerNew York$95K
- Jason HawksworthNew York$91K
- Parissa TabrizianNew York$74K
- Lloyd RatnerNew York$32K
- Hautien LiouNew York$31K
- Karim HalazunNew York$28K
- Myron SchwartzNew York$27K
- Ron ShapiroNew York$16K
- Gabriel GondolesiNew York$15K
- Lewis TepermanNew York$13K
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.