Vito Valentino
Physician Assistant · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1578889705
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 607 payments — averaging $33.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$10K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Abbott$4K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$992
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$450
- Edwards Lifesciences$375
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9555%
- Food & beverage$19,54795%
- Education$470%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 211 | $10,170 |
| Boston Scientific | 136 | $3,640 |
| Abbott | 158 | $3,617 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 28 | $992 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 19 | $450 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $375 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 8 | $229 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 7 | $186 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $170 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $159 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $98 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $98 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $79 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $57 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 2 | $34 |
| BD | 1 | $21 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $6 |
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.
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$1,614
- LINQ II$1,226
- Micra$703
- HemoSphere$375
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$326
- LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor$267
- WATCHMAN FLX$267
- GALLANT$236
- ENSITE$154
- AVEIR$153
- Azure$150
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$138
- INGEVITY$115
How this compares
$20,550 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 41 | $97 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Brooklyn
- Kaitlyn NelsonBrooklyn$289K
- Melissa VelezBrooklyn$68K
- Steven KongBrooklyn$66K
- Hong ChenBrooklyn$57K
- Lindsey AxtBrooklyn$52K
- Gregory CelestinBrooklyn$41K
- Henry YuBronx$1M
- Michael AsbachAmherst$962K
- Janelle BunceJamestown$565K
- Kristyl Cuenca-SiskoNew York$478K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.