Ajul Shah, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Pennington, NJNPI 1598085961
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $63,895 of the $103,860 with a category attached, or 61.5%. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Integra Lifesciences Corporation at 51.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $25,056 and has fallen 78.8% since, to $5,313 in 2025.
Across 169 payments — averaging $614.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$53K
- Baxter Healthcare$37K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$11K
- Bioventus LLC$271
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$225
- Johnson & Johnson$220
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$63,89562%
- Speaking & faculty fees$28,69728%
- Travel & lodging$6,6336%
- Food & beverage$4,4564%
- Other$1790%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 81 | $53,269 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $37,364 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 19 | $10,907 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $271 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 4 | $225 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $220 |
| Axogen | 5 | $170 |
| Abbott | 1 | $153 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $129 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $123 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $117 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $104 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 3 | $96 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 5 | $76 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 3 | $75 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Vertex | 4 | $62 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $38 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $29 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $16 |
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.
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$34,922
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$32,672
- FLOWABLE$32,672
- IDRT$32,672
- Checkpoint Stimulators$10,704
- INTEGRA$9,581
- ADVANCED WOUND CARE$7,250
- PRIMATRIX$6,135
- CYTAL$4,950
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$2,250
- SURGIMEND$2,250
- AMNIOEXCEL$520
- INnate Implant$233
- Stimrouter Implantable Kit$224
- Hillrom - Connex Vital Signs Monitor$179
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$154
- PROCLAIM$153
- OMNIGRAFT$141
- MEDIHONEY$141
- TCC-EZ$141
How this compares
Too few surgery of the hand providers in New Jerseyto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 35 | $543 |
| Ibuprofen | 28 | $131 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Pennington
- David TsaiPennington$5K
- Renata WeberRutherford$9K
- Eric StraussVoorhees$9K
- Gary BreslowParamus$7K
- Stephen DudickGalloway$6K
- Jeffry JacobsOradell$4K
- Oren MichaeliEnglewood$4K
- Steven UgrasParamus$2K
- Caroline McLaughlinCamden$2K
- Abram KirschenbaumDenville$2K
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.