David Abrutyn, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Bridgewater, NJNPI 1679534903
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,141 of the $3,674 with a category attached, or 85.5%. Stryker accounts for 68.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $973 and has fallen 55.2% since, to $436 in 2025.
Across 53 payments — averaging $69.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Smith+Nephew$990
- Johnson & Johnson$112
- Avanos Medical$49
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$53214%
- Food & beverage$3,14186%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 33 | $2,522 |
| Smith+Nephew | 15 | $990 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $112 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $49 |
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.
- TRIATHLON$1,143
- MAKO$775
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$348
- LENS 4K$263
- DYONICS POWER II$150
- RF20000$150
- GoFlo Pump$150
- N/A$135
- Biosure$127
- Q-FIX$126
- Healicoil$126
- Latarjet System$126
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$126
How this compares
$3,674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 587 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 113 | $1,296 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 193 | $886 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 76 | $624 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 200 | $612 |
| Prednisone | 64 | $425 |
| Meloxicam | 132 | $336 |
| Methylprednisolone | 50 | $300 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $123 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Bridgewater
- Vineet TyagiBridgewater$54K
- Michael KellyHackensack$9.7M
- Mark HartzbandParamus$9.4M
- Randal BetzLawrenceville$3M
- Luke AustinSewell$2.9M
- Kenneth MontgomeryMorristown$2.7M
- Zachary PostEgg Harbor Township$1.7M
- Harlan LevineMontvale$1.5M
- Jeffrey AbramsPrinceton$1.5M
- Gregg KleinParamus$1.5M
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.