Neurological Surgery in New York
446 providers, $24,355,051 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $3,235.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays neurological surgery clinicians in New York
Across 333 neurological surgery clinicians in New York who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $36,605,460 in total — an average of $109,926 each, of which $109,656 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1,949,258
- 2J MoccoNew York$1,600,727
- 3Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1,513,005
- 4Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1,186,930
- 5Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1,117,387
- 6Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1,104,801
- 7Darryl LauNew York$915,400
- 8Mark BilskyNew York$902,723
- 9John PollinaWilliamsville$660,616
- 10Michael GroffRochester$559,447
- 11Jan-Karl BurkhardtNew York$440,682
- 12Peter HollisFlushing$417,103
- 13Jeffrey MullinWilliamsville$389,256
- 14Dean ChouNew York$382,627
- 15Elad LevyWilliamsville$372,561
- 16Anders CohenBrooklyn$368,592
- 17Seth ZeidmanRochester$338,461
- 18Reade DeleacyNew York$328,694
- 19Johanna FifiNew York$325,943
- 20Loubert SuddabyHamburg$322,973
- 21James MillsBig Flats$290,383
- 22Michael StoffmanNiagara Falls$279,350
- 23Jason DaviesBuffalo$273,849
- 24David LangerNew York$257,528
- 25John DalfinoAlbany$240,156
- 26Ali BaajNew York$239,996
- 27Viviane TabarNew York$231,240
- 28Jared KnopmanNew York$219,755
- 29Erez NossekNew York$218,323
- 30Ilya LauferNew York$213,750
- 31Shahram MajidiNew York$208,441
- 32Henry WooStony Brook$207,798
- 33Angel BoevRochester$197,461
- 34Merritt KinonBronx$182,998
- 35Jaime NietoFlushing$170,101
- 36Soriaya MotivalaStaten Island$167,680
- 37Dana AdkinsValhalla$163,390
- 38Salvatore ZavarellaWest Islip$161,425
- 39John ShiauStaten Island$160,884
- 40Osama KashlanBrooklyn$158,596
- 41Kai Ming FuNew York$155,882
- 42Galal ElsayedFlushing$155,746
- 43Akram MahmoudIthaca$151,606
- 44Eric RogerAmherst$149,514
- 45Kimon BekelisWest Islip$147,403
- 46Michael SmithNew York$136,932
- 47Fedor PanovNew York$121,639
- 48Randy D'amicoBrooklyn$112,182
- 49Matthew BenderRochester$98,899
- 50Brian KopellNew York$98,034
- 51Roger HartlNew York$96,680
- 52Howard RiinaNew York$95,943
- 53Kenneth SnyderBuffalo$95,829
- 54Michael VirkNew York$93,961
- 55Simon HanftValhalla$93,156
- 56Jonathan RasouliStaten Island$92,516
- 57Christopher KellnerNew York$91,859
- 58Netanel BenshalomNew York$91,651
- 59Ali HazamaSyracuse$83,019
- 60Bennie ChilesHartsdale$81,568