Andrew Yang, MD
Hand Surgery · Fort Lee, NJNPI 1629463690
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Integra Lifesciences Corporation at 31.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $8,260 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $89 in 2025.
Across 100 payments — averaging $125.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$4K
- Arthrex$3K
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$1K
- Axogen$794
- Trimed, Inc.$754
- Encore Medical, LP$660
- plus $2K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,68021%
- Food & beverage$6,94756%
- Education$2,57621%
- Entertainment$1121%
- Other$1882%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 43 | $3,873 |
| Arthrex | 17 | $3,496 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 7 | $1,129 |
| Axogen | 6 | $794 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 3 | $754 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $660 |
| Stryker | 8 | $519 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $375 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $286 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $181 |
| Osteomed LLC | 2 | $176 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $139 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $123 |
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.
- TENOGLIDE$2,040
- Geminus$1,058
- Align$1,058
- IJS$1,058
- Implate$1,058
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$794
- DJO Surgical Discovery Elbow System$660
- TENOGLIDE TENDON PROTECTOR SHEET$656
- NEURAGEN NERVE GUIDE$656
- NEURAGEN$575
- INTEGRA$468
- PRIMATRIX$299
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$299
- APTUS$286
- ACUMED$276
- GAMMA$168
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$143
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$143
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$143
- GRAFIX PL$139
How this compares
$12,503 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 87 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 207 | $532 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Fort Lee
- Charles LeinberryEgg Harbor Twp$3.1M
- John CapoJersey City$1.1M
- Virak TanNewark$711K
- Gary PessEatontown$212K
- Mark RekantCherry Hill$209K
- Teddy AtikEatontown$37K
- Bishoy SaadJersey City$33K
- Genghis NiverFlorham Park$27K
- Michael VosbikianNewark$26K
- Linda ChaoCape May Court House$19K
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.