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Open Pivot

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Open Pivot. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$910associated payments (2023-2025)
14clinicians with associated payments
1company reporting

By year

2023 $884
2024 $22.18
2025 $3.39

Payments reported as associated with Open Pivot, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Cardiovascular Disease $295
Family Medicine $221
Medical $221
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology $73.66
Interventional Cardiology $73.66
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $25.57

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Open Pivot

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Open Pivot. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Teresa Foster Woodstock, NY Family Medicine $73.67
Ali Hammoud Kingston, NY Cardiovascular Disease $73.67
Benjamin Schaefer Rhinebeck, NY Cardiovascular Disease $73.67
Gary Cohen Kingston, NY Cardiovascular Disease $73.67
Deirdre Mckibbin Vaughan Poughkeepsie, NY Medical $73.66
Sankar Varanasi Poughkeepsie, NY Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology $73.66
Eric Stamberg Kingston, NY Family Medicine $73.66
Brooke Littlefield Schenectady, NY Family Medicine $73.66
Tom Mckibbin-Vaughan Hudson, NY Medical $73.66
Douglas Kroll Poughkeepsie, NY Cardiovascular Disease $73.66

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.