Eric Sommer, MD
Surgery · Hackensack, NJNPI 1659447092
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 325 payments — averaging $22.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Medtronic$827
- Novo Nordisk$754
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$641
- Covidien LP$461
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2403%
- Food & beverage$6,19285%
- Education$81411%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 113 | $2,065 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $1,040 |
| Medtronic | 34 | $827 |
| Novo Nordisk | 59 | $754 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 37 | $641 |
| Covidien LP | 9 | $461 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 12 | $260 |
| Senseonics, Incorporated | 1 | $240 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 15 | $227 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 12 | $169 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $154 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $48 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $41 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 2 | $36 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $25 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$814
- Signia$493
- Eversense$240
How this compares
$7,246 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 593 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 surgery in Hackensack
- Stephen PereiraHackensack$28K
- Seth PetersenHackensack$20K
- Eric WhitmanMorristown$4.3M
- Robert PerezHainesport$2M
- Adam BergerNew Brunswick$1.7M
- Joseph HeetherHamilton$1.1M
- Young HongCamden$926K
- Jarrod KaufmanBrick$524K
- Amit TrivediParamus$273K
- Harvey RainvilleGlen Ridge$159K
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.