Has Ari Berg, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,199 in general payments to Ari Berg, MD across 29 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 Ari Berg, 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 Ari Berg, 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.

Ari Berg, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Bergen, NJNPI 1053871731

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,344 of the $5,199 with a category attached, or 64.3%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 50.5% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $6,857.

$5,199in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $179.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$3K
Globus Medical$1K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$229
Si-bone, Inc.$140
Ossdsign USA Incorporated$41

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,34464%
Food & beverage$1,21123%
Education$64412%

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	15	$2,625
Globus Medical	4	$1,118
Alphatec Spine, Inc	7	$1,045
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$229
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$140
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	1	$41

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

$5,199 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 84 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$31,545

Medicare patients

Services billed

240

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.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Bergen

Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
Justin KubeckToms River$309K
Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K
Gordon DonaldEatontown$167K
Grigory GoldbergOcean$161K
Ki HwangWayne$147K
James HaleTeaneck$128K

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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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