Vasileios Kostaras, MD
General Surgery · Stony Brook, NYNPI 1144487968
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,402 of the $3,303 with a category attached, or 72.7%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. at 32.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,201 and has fallen 85.0% since, to $180 in 2025. Among general surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 20 payments — averaging $165.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Transmedics, Inc.$748
- Covidien LP$157
- Kerecis Limited$139
- Medtronic$120
- plus $40 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,40273%
- Food & beverage$90127%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $1,081 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,018 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 1 | $748 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $157 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $139 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $120 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $40 |
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
$3,303 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 122 general 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 general surgery in Stony Brook
- Filippo FilicoriNew York$139K
- Collin BrathwaiteMineola$118K
- Sukanya SubramanianNew York$48K
- William OmalleyRochester$10K
- Elie SuttonBrooklyn$9K
- Alain DerzieNew Hyde Park$9K
- Garri PasklinskyWest Islip$6K
- James ClarkeValhalla$4K
- Lynn ChoiAlbany$2K
- Marc FinkelsteinBay Shore$2K
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.