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Industry payments to physicians · New Jersey · 2024

New Jersey

In New Jersey, drug and device makers reported $58M in general payments to 30,154 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $1,920 each — plus $89M tied to research and $14M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$58M
general payments
30,154
covered recipients paid
$1,920
mean per physician

Top specialties in New Jersey

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $5M
Unspecified $3M
Internal Medicine $2M
Urology $2M
Neurology $2M
Dermatology $2M
Cardiovascular Disease $2M
Medical Oncology $1M
General Practice $1M
Obstetrics & Gynecology $1M
Hematology & Oncology $1M
Ophthalmology $1M

Highest-paid physicians in New Jersey

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Atul Kamath Orthopaedic Surgery · Manasquan · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $1M
Omar Noor Unspecified · Somerset · top payer: Genzyme Corporation $1M
Jennifer Ashton Obstetrics & Gynecology · Englewood · top payer: Astellas Pharma US Inc $930,689
Ryan Lake General Practice · Clark · top payer: Stryker Corporation $907,481
Michael Stifelman Urology · Hackensack · top payer: Vascular Technology, Inc. $803,239
Jonathan Nicozisis Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Princeton · top payer: Align Technology, Inc. $644,305
Frank Liporace Orthopaedic Trauma · Jersey City · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $625,702
James Mccloskey Medical Oncology · Hackensack · top payer: GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $608,974
Michael Gould Emergency Medicine · Somerville · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $555,594
David Shulkin Internal Medicine · Morristown · top payer: 4DMedical USA Inc $460,384
Jamie Koprivnikar Medical Oncology · Hackensack · top payer: Sobi, Inc $416,085
Fariborz Rezai Critical Care Medicine · Livingston · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $403,307
Luke Austin Orthopaedic Surgery · Sewell · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $396,440
Harlan Levine Orthopaedic Surgery · Montvale · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $376,057
Gregg Klein Orthopaedic Surgery · Paramus · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $361,675
Michael Ast Orthopaedic Surgery · Paramus · top payer: ORTHALIGN INC $355,019
Linda Cappiello-Lindsley Dermatology · Hoboken · top payer: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. $349,301
Randal Betz Orthopaedic Surgery · Lawrenceville · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $342,500
Lori Cox Rheumatology · New Brunswick · top payer: Janssen Research & Development, LLC $339,085
Steven Bromley Neurology · Audubon · top payer: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $305,299
Brian Keegan Dermatology · East Windsor · top payer: Amgen Inc. $299,892
Jai Parekh Ophthalmology · Woodland Park · top payer: Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $299,842
Jihad Slim Infectious Disease · Newark · top payer: ViiV Healthcare Company $299,110
Charles Leinberry Hand Surgery · Egg Harbor Twp · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $277,538
Andrew Levy Orthopaedic Surgery · Millburn · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $267,024

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in New Jersey — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.