Has Elizabeth Zielinski, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,505 in general payments to Elizabeth Zielinski, MD across 15 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 Elizabeth Zielinski, 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 Elizabeth Zielinski, 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.

Elizabeth Zielinski, MD

Hand Surgery · Berkeley Heights, NJNPI 1003261876

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,657 of the $2,505 with a category attached, or 66.1%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Fortis Surgical, LLC at 34.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,033 and has fallen 85.5% since, to $150 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $3,086.

$2,505in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $167.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Fortis Surgical, LLC$861
Axogen$629
Stryker$539
Medartis Inc.$160
Endo USA, Inc.$150
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$146
plus $21 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,65766%
Education$84834%

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
Fortis Surgical, LLC	2	$861
Axogen	2	$629
Stryker	6	$539
Medartis Inc.	1	$160
Endo USA, Inc.	2	$150
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$146
Seapearl East, Inc	1	$21

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.

AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$629
XIAFLEX$279
NEUROMATRIX$235
APTUS$160
NA$120
T2$120

How this compares

$2,505 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 87 hand surgery providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$196,086

Medicare patients

399

Services billed

2,324

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	17	$294
Meloxicam	113	$293
Methylprednisolone	24	$182
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	13	$118
Oxycodone Hcl	18	$63
Ondansetron Hcl	28	$55
Tramadol Hcl	17	$39

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Berkeley Heights

Charles LeinberryEgg Harbor Twp$3.1M
John CapoJersey City$1.1M
Virak TanNewark$711K
Gary PessEatontown$212K
Mark RekantCherry Hill$209K
Teddy AtikEatontown$37K
Bishoy SaadJersey City$33K
Genghis NiverFlorham Park$27K
Michael VosbikianNewark$26K
Linda ChaoCape May Court House$19K

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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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