Has Douglas Nowacki, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,401 in general payments to Douglas Nowacki, MD across 227 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 Douglas Nowacki, MD 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 Douglas Nowacki, MD 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.

Douglas Nowacki, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Ocean, NJNPI 1518302660

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,182 of the $17,401 with a category attached, or 64.3%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 32.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,850 and has fallen 85.5% since, to $1,137 in 2025.

$17,401in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 227 payments — averaging $76.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$6K
Stryker$4K
Globus Medical$4K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$879
Alphatec Spine, Inc$638
Johnson & Johnson$433
plus $1K from 21 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$5,84134%
Food & beverage$11,18264%
Education$3392%
Entertainment$390%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	54	$5,580
Stryker	39	$4,259
Globus Medical(2 entities)	52	$4,205
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	21	$879
Alphatec Spine, Inc	12	$638
Johnson & Johnson	6	$433
DJO, LLC	5	$239
Boston Scientific	2	$173
Augmedics Inc.	2	$143
Nevro Corp.	3	$114
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	5	$109
Spinal Elements, Inc.	5	$107
Curonix LLC	1	$76
Sanara Medtech Inc.	3	$69
Integrity Implants Inc.	1	$46
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$44
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$41
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$38
AbbVie	1	$35
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	2	$31
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$30
Solventum Corporation	1	$25
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	2	$24
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$20
Smith+Nephew	1	$16
Highridge Medical LLC	1	$14
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	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.

XLIF$1,571
CD HORIZON$1,522
O-ARM$1,508
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,084
TRITANIUM$819
AERO$673
ARIA$673
ANCHOR L$673
ZEVO$349
MAZOR X SYSTEM$305
CASCADIA$245
SPINEMAP$221
ATLANTIS$171
MONTEREY AL$161
OASYS$159
K2M CERVICAL$156
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$138
Invictus MIS$131
CAPRI$127
EVEREST MI$127

How this compares

$17,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 84 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$44,781

Medicare patients

Services billed

215

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
Gabapentin	13	$190
Methylprednisolone	12	$117

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Ocean

Grigory GoldbergOcean$161K
Vincent BuddleOcean$14K
Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
Justin KubeckToms River$309K
Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K
Gordon DonaldEatontown$167K
Ki HwangWayne$147K

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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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