Brian Kim
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Toms River, NJNPI 1558943068
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $559 of the $727 with a category attached, or 76.9%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 24.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $423, more than ten times the $14 reported in 2021.
Across 18 payments — averaging $40.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$177
- Stryker$94
- Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$85
- Seagen Inc.$83
- Gilead$68
- GSK$38
- plus $181 from 8 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $38,219 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Merck$459K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$55977%
- Education$16823%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 1 | $177 |
| Stryker | 1 | $94 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $85 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Gilead | 3 | $68 |
| GSK | 2 | $38 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $36 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $14 |
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
$727 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 434 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in New Jersey.
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Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Toms River
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- Steven EscaldiEdison$70K
- Yekyung KongWest Orange$61K
- Joseph IbrahimBayonne$50K
- Steven KirshblumWest Orange$47K
- Joseph ValenzaChester$29K
- Christine GreissEdison$28K
- Bianca MartinezManasquan$25K
- Jason SmithCedar Knolls$19K
- Sandeep RathiLakewood$14K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.