William Graber
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 153 payments — averaging $323.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$48K
- Novo Nordisk$385
- Baxter Healthcare$252
- Medtronic$119
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$115
- Johnson & Johnson$41
- plus $205 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6521%
- Food & beverage$2,7155%
- Education$46,09393%
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 | 124 | $48,343 |
| Novo Nordisk | 13 | $385 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $252 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $119 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $41 |
| Stryker | 1 | $40 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Acell, Inc. | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$47,083
- FLOSEAL$130
- Wegovy$123
- PerClot$123
- EndoFlip$119
How this compares
$49,461 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,596 surgery providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Topiramate | 12 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Utica
- Vinod BalachandranNew York$3M
- Stephanie GoffNew York$2.7M
- Alice WeiNew York$2.3M
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Thom LoreeBuffalo$1M
- 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.