Has Andrew Sawires, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $23,456 in general payments to Andrew Sawires, MD across 170 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Andrew Sawires, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Andrew Sawires, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Andrew Sawires, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Wayne, NJNPI 1568966935

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.5%.

$23,456in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 170 payments — averaging $137.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$5K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$4K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
Synthes GmbH$3K
VB Spine LLC$2K
Medtronic$2K
plus $5K from 21 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$10,24144%
Food & beverage$13,21556%

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
Stryker	32	$4,810
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	31	$3,782
Alphatec Spine, Inc	23	$3,438
Synthes GmbH	5	$2,791
VB Spine LLC	10	$1,595
Medtronic	20	$1,556
Spineology Inc.	3	$974
Spineart USA Inc	5	$422
Johnson & Johnson	5	$414
Globus Medical	4	$371
Bioventus LLC	3	$360
Icotec Medical Inc.	2	$331
4web, Inc.	3	$328
Precision Spine, Inc.	2	$279
Lifenet Health	2	$270
Spinal Elements, Inc.	2	$228
DJO, LLC	3	$203
Boston Scientific	2	$179
Abbott	2	$169
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	3	$158
Davol Inc.	1	$154
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$153
Kerecis Limited	1	$133
Curonix LLC	1	$129
Spine Wave, Inc.	1	$122
International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc	1	$56
Spineart SA	1	$49

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.

How this compares

$23,456 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 84 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$34,770

Medicare patients

Services billed

285

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
Gabapentin	18	$196
Meloxicam	18	$60

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Wayne

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Nikhil SahaiWayne$71K
Colin HarrisWayne$43K
Kumar SinhaWayne$25K
Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
Justin KubeckToms River$309K
Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K

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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.

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