Has Christine Pfisterer, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,635 in general payments to Christine Pfisterer, DO across 36 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 Christine Pfisterer, DO 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 Christine Pfisterer, DO 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.

Christine Pfisterer, DO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Teaneck, NJNPI 1245491455

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 36 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 30.9% of the total.

$2,635in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $73.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$814
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$623
Zimmer Biomet$250
Globus Medical$173
Nevro Corp.$169
Centinel Spine, LLC$130
plus $475 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,635100%

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
Abbott	10	$814
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	8	$623
Zimmer Biomet	2	$250
Globus Medical	2	$173
Nevro Corp.	2	$169
Centinel Spine, LLC	2	$130
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$107
Medtronic	1	$96
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$88
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$59
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$42
Boston Scientific	2	$40
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	1	$15
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$15
AbbVie	1	$13

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

$2,635 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 434 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$179,174

Medicare patients

365

Services billed

1,496

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
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl	27	$19,194
Buprenorphine	51	$11,225
Lidocaine	25	$2,936
Pregabalin	134	$2,445
Gabapentin	110	$1,439
Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl	25	$1,211
Oxycodone Hcl	52	$865
Tramadol Hcl	152	$744
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	33	$611
Duloxetine Hcl	44	$535
Methylprednisolone	52	$418
Methocarbamol	84	$342
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	21	$248
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	22	$193
Naproxen	35	$184

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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