Avik Sarkar, MD
Gastroenterology · New Brunswick, NJNPI 1528383403
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 114 payments — averaging $69.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$1K
- Ambu Inc.$656
- Medtronic$511
- Steris Corporation$394
- Pentax Of America, Inc.$394
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50019%
- Food & beverage$6,46781%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 39 | $3,532 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 11 | $1,030 |
| Ambu Inc. | 6 | $656 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $511 |
| Steris Corporation | 5 | $394 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 5 | $394 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 5 | $328 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 2 | $296 |
| AbbVie | 15 | $208 |
| Evoendo, Inc | 1 | $119 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $96 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $47 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $40 |
| Amgen | 2 | $36 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Digestive Care, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 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.
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$333
- FUJIFILM$296
- AXIOS$287
- ORBERA Intragastric Balloon System$257
- Histoguide Wire guided forceps$254
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$218
- GI Genius$154
- SPYGLASS$149
- ProdiGI$143
- Moray Micro Forceps$142
- Infinity ERCP Sampling Device$142
- Carr-Locke Injection Needle$142
- Roth Net Retrievers 360$142
- WallFlex Duodenal$141
- Aloka Arietta 850$140
- APOLLO ESG System$136
- OverStitch NXT Endoscopic Suturing System$133
- EndoFlip$128
- Overstitch$124
- EXALT Model D$118
How this compares
$7,967 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 701 gastroenterology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levofloxacin | 20 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in New Brunswick
- Vinod RustgiNew Brunswick$697K
- Arvind TrindadeNew Brunswick$652K
- Lea ChenNew Brunswick$185K
- Kiran RaoSparta$1.3M
- Adekunle AdeotiIrvington$1.2M
- Carl WallachMorristown$766K
- Barry KaufmanEgg Harbor Township$595K
- Promila BanerjeeStratford$522K
- Neil NagariaToms River$442K
- Zamir BrelviNewark$408K
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.