Yaron Sternbach, MD
Vascular Surgery · Albany, NYNPI 1205826088
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (41.1%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Endologix LLC at 29.5% of the total.
Across 236 payments — averaging $169.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$12K
- Boston Scientific$9K
- Abbott$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$3K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$2K
- plus $7K from 19 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $3510.00 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.
- Endologix LLC$11K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,45041%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,10013%
- Travel & lodging$7,44519%
- Food & beverage$11,03228%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endologix LLC | 10 | $11,803 |
| Boston Scientific | 38 | $8,789 |
| Abbott | 5 | $3,587 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 41 | $3,325 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $3,292 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 14 | $2,440 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 40 | $2,425 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 16 | $1,171 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 6 | $1,120 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 6 | $330 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $278 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $243 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $211 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $204 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $198 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 1 | $134 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $73 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $34 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Centerline Biomedical Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$6,850
- Ovation iX Iliac Stent Graft$4,600
- Perclose ProGlide suture mediated closure system$3,500
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$3,200
- FlowTriever$1,822
- ClotTriever$1,822
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,741
- Valiant Navion$1,600
- HYDRO LEMAITRE VALVULOTOME$1,314
- Artis pheno$1,052
- ACCOLADE SR$801
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$727
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$492
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$394
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$315
- Abre$299
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$244
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$243
- Relay Plus$223
- ARTEGRAFT VASCULAR GRAFT$197
How this compares
$40,026 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 405 vascular 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 19 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Albany
- Jeffrey HnathAlbany$289K
- Kathleen OzsvathAlbany$183K
- Paul KreienbergAlbany$115K
- Gary GelbfishNew York$1.9M
- Sundaram RavikumarDobbs Ferry$1.8M
- Antonios GasparisHuntington$1.5M
- Sonya NoorBuffalo$991K
- John LantisNew York$922K
- Brian DerubertisNew York$714K
- James McKinseyNew York$616K
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.