Deborah Pontoriero
Gerontology · Toms River, NJNPI 1508829540
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.1% of the total across 136 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 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $874 and has fallen 63.5% since, to $319 in 2025.
Across 136 payments — averaging $20.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$588
- Almirall LLC$355
- Journey Medical Corporation$347
- Sanofi$276
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$210
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$131
- plus $903 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,64494%
- Education$1666%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 32 | $588 |
| Almirall LLC | 33 | $355 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 14 | $347 |
| Sanofi | 17 | $276 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $210 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 4 | $131 |
| Incyte Corporation | 2 | $127 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $110 |
| Novartis | 4 | $95 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $80 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 7 | $80 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $78 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $72 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $69 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Amgen | 1 | $19 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 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
$2,810 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 374 gerontology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 93 | $1,905 |
| Fluorouracil | 30 | $1,823 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 51 | $1,570 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 106 | $1,313 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 33 | $950 |
| Mupirocin | 66 | $783 |
| Metronidazole | 12 | $581 |
| Minoxidil | 45 | $493 |
| Ciclopirox | 17 | $397 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gerontology in Toms River
- Mihaela MichaelToms River$3K
- John Engelbert LagayadaToms River$3K
- Dana JonesTeaneck$150K
- Jennifer FoxFlemington$76K
- Susan HermidaBrick$33K
- Jihane SaadeNorth Bergen$9K
- Joseph RudolphCamden$8K
- Jennifer LernerNew Brunswick$7K
- Josephine MachadoNew Brunswick$7K
- Remya JamesNew Brunswick$7K
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.