Chukwunwike Okafor, MD
Sports Medicine · South Orange, NJNPI 1417584962
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 25 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for sports medicine clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $1,237.
Across 25 payments — averaging $21.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$70
- Lilly USA, LLC$70
- Exact Sciences$69
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$68
- Zimmer Biomet$52
- Medtronic$48
- plus $157 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$534100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 4 | $70 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $70 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $69 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $68 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $52 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $48 |
| Bayer | 2 | $39 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $35 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $15 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$534 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 221 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 15 | $262 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 16 | $112 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $71 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 16 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in South Orange
- Sean McMillanBurlington$1.8M
- Nicholas JarmonFreehold$277K
- Thomas YoumEnglewood$221K
- Stephen HuntCedar Knolls$76K
- David PorterHackensack$63K
- Francis AlbertaHackensack$61K
- Nathan HolmesSewell$56K
- Steven FreyWoodbury$55K
- Lon CastleFranklin Lakes$54K
- Dante MarconiSomers Point$49K
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.