Erik Contreras, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Hackensack, NJNPI 1467987628
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 75 payments — averaging $97.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- CDC Medical LLC$1K
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$1K
- Arthrex$901
- Zimmer Biomet$339
- Davol Inc.$283
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,81425%
- Food & beverage$3,11743%
- Education$2,40033%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 21 | $1,986 |
| CDC Medical LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Arthrex | 20 | $901 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $339 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $283 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $240 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $224 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $182 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 4 | $159 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $149 |
| BD | 2 | $101 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 5 | $98 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $87 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $34 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $25 |
| Vericel Corporation | 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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,601
- Kerecis SurgiClose$747
- Kerecis GraftGuide$187
- COMPREHENSIVE$186
- EXACTECHGPS$182
- Identity$153
- Channel Drain$148
- Integrity implant$141
- TACTOSET$141
- Surgiphor$136
How this compares
$7,331 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 587 orthopaedic 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 20 | $137 |
| Meloxicam | 37 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Hackensack
- Michael KellyHackensack$9.7M
- Oscar VazquezHackensack$810K
- Yair KissinHackensack$322K
- Thomas JohnHackensack$59K
- Mark HartzbandParamus$9.4M
- Luke AustinSewell$4.3M
- Randal BetzLawrenceville$3M
- Kenneth MontgomeryMorristown$2.7M
- Zachary PostEgg Harbor Township$1.7M
- Gregg KleinParamus$1.6M
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.