Benjamin van Boxtel, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Morristown, NJNPI 1962727644
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 65.5% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular 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 411 payments — averaging $97.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$26K
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Artivion, Inc.$2K
- Bolton Medical Inc$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$1K
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,81357%
- Travel & lodging$5,13013%
- Food & beverage$11,62729%
- Entertainment$160%
- Other$2821%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 54 | $26,103 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 165 | $4,998 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 15 | $2,090 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 22 | $2,002 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 89 | $1,774 |
| Abbott | 19 | $1,294 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 22 | $851 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $148 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $138 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $121 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $102 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $68 |
| Opsens Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $23 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- A&E MEDICAL / STERNALOCK XP RIGID FIXATION SYSTEM$9,397
- A&E Medical / Thorecon Disposable Plate Cutter$7,063
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$1,500
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$1,449
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$492
- BioGlue$480
- On-X$480
- PhotoFix$480
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$444
- CoreValve Evolut$351
- PORTICO$282
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$253
- KONECT RESILIA$171
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$150
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$131
- XARELTO$123
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$112
- ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$112
How this compares
$39,867 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 34 | $212 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Morristown
- John BrownMorristown$32K
- Bledi ZakuMorristown$27K
- Federico SteinerMorristown$25K
- Mark WidmannMorristown$25K
- Steve XydasMorristown$12K
- James SlaterMorristown$11K
- Christopher MagovernMorristown$6K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$219K
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
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.