Emily Vankouwenberg, MD
Plastic Surgery · New Brunswick, NJNPI 1396004677
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (47.3%), travel and lodging and other — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Trimed, Inc. accounts for 60.3% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,046 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $150 in 2025.
Across 13 payments — averaging $303.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$2K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$536
- Axogen$530
- AbbVie$184
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$115
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$77
- plus $124 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,54339%
- Food & beverage$1,86347%
- Other$53614%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 4 | $2,376 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $536 |
| Axogen | 1 | $530 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $184 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $115 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $77 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $63 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $61 |
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
$3,943 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 170 plastic 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.
Other plastic surgery in New Brunswick
- Philip WeyNew Brunswick$8K
- Kevin NiniNew Brunswick$4K
- Steven DavisCherry Hill$349K
- Caroline GlicksmanSea Girt$239K
- Asaad SamraHolmdel$224K
- Travis LaverneVoorhees Township$119K
- Joseph RacanelliMorristown$90K
- Fares SamraHolmdel$54K
- Anthony LombardiEatontown$42K
- Alexander AuMarlton$28K
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.