Ajay Kumar, MD
Pain Medicine · Watchung, NJNPI 1871545111
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,303 of the $12,106 with a category attached, or 68.6%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 36.7% of the total. Among pain medicine clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 363 payments — averaging $33.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$4K
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$2K
- Nevro Corp.$555
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$347
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,80231%
- Food & beverage$8,30369%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 173 | $4,443 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 24 | $2,091 |
| Boston Scientific | 75 | $1,975 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 12 | $1,685 |
| Nevro Corp. | 21 | $555 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 12 | $347 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 7 | $221 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 7 | $126 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $72 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $68 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $35 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $31 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $29 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $17 |
| GSK | 1 | $15 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Iovera$1,396
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,328
- VenaSeal$840
- SYNCHROMED$614
- PROCLAIM$244
- INFINION$140
- Proclaim IPG$129
- Infinion 16$107
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$100
How this compares
$12,106 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 256 pain medicine providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Duloxetine Hcl | 346 | $5,667 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 267 | $3,843 |
| Celecoxib | 122 | $2,680 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 192 | $2,557 |
| Gabapentin | 208 | $1,933 |
| Fentanyl | 15 | $774 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 58 | $749 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 45 | $568 |
| Pregabalin | 81 | $560 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 45 | $467 |
| Methadone Hcl | 26 | $420 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 99 | $399 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 13 | $362 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 43 | $335 |
| Diclofenac Potassium | 15 | $266 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Watchung
- Sean LiShrewsbury$1.2M
- Matthias WiederholzLawrenceville$853K
- Todd StitikNewark$370K
- Peter StaatsShrewsbury$286K
- Warren GraceEdison$158K
- Caitlin InnerfieldHaddonfield$97K
- Anson MoiseEnglewood$78K
- Pavli DemianSomerset$65K
- Dipan PatelClifton$50K
- Matthew LesneskiMount Laurel$47K
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.