Charles Franco, MD
Surgery · Monroe Township, NJNPI 1942393012
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,188 of the $4,426 with a category attached, or 72.0%. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,715 and has fallen 80.7% since, to $331 in 2025.
Across 50 payments — averaging $88.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Covidien LP$54
- Davol Inc.$31
- Smith+Nephew$24
- Medtronic$24
- plus $62 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,22128%
- Food & beverage$3,18872%
- Gifts$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 27 | $2,827 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 16 | $1,404 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $54 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $24 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $22 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $17 |
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
$4,426 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 593 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 31 | $925 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 26 | $169 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Monroe Township
- Robert PerezHainesport$2M
- Eric WhitmanMorristown$848K
- Jarrod KaufmanBrick$474K
- Amit TrivediParamus$242K
- Young HongCamden$203K
- Harvey RainvilleGlen Ridge$159K
- Harrison CotlerOakhurst$149K
- Francis PrevitiNorth Field$131K
- David DupreeTinton Falls$124K
- Patricia MartzCape May Court House$98K
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.