Amit Kharod, MD
Surgery · Freehold, NJNPI 1003804964
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (43.9%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 32 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 52.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,290 and has fallen 73.3% since, to $1,414 in 2025. Among surgery 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 137 payments — averaging $126.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Medtronic$5K
- Seapearl East, Inc$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$431
- Baxter Healthcare$164
- Davol Inc.$147
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0006%
- Travel & lodging$7,62044%
- Food & beverage$3,69321%
- Education$5,00029%
- Gifts$280%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 38 | $9,078 |
| Medtronic | 24 | $5,267 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 3 | $1,031 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $431 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $164 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $147 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 5 | $130 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Stryker | 1 | $115 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $92 |
| Vertex | 5 | $89 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $81 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $66 |
| Abbott | 1 | $64 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $42 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $41 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $37 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $34 |
| Merck | 2 | $32 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $21 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $18 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$8,234
- LigaSure$687
- ADVISA DR MRI SURESCAN$284
- Harmonic$128
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$128
- VISTASEAL$128
- ETHICON$128
- 1788$115
How this compares
$17,342 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 593 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 48 | $70 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Freehold
- Robert PerezHainesport$2M
- Eric WhitmanMorristown$848K
- Jarrod KaufmanBrick$474K
- Amit TrivediParamus$242K
- Young HongCamden$203K
- Harvey RainvilleGlen Ridge$159K
- Harrison CotlerOakhurst$149K
- Francis PrevitiNorth Field$131K
- David DupreeTinton Falls$124K
- Patricia MartzCape May Court House$98K
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.