Francisco Alvarado, MD
Trauma Surgery · Newark, NJNPI 1093241267
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.6%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,646, more than ten times the $19 reported in 2019.
Across 57 payments — averaging $107.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$980
- Abbott$738
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$562
- Davol Inc.$420
- plus $958 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,80246%
- Food & beverage$3,01449%
- Education$3055%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $1,384 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,080 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $980 |
| Abbott | 15 | $738 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $562 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $420 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $236 |
| BD | 2 | $226 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $173 |
| GSK | 1 | $121 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $92 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
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.
- RIBFIX TITAN$1,287
- INTEGRA$901
- Da Vinci Surgical System$748
- MATRIXRIB$693
- PROGEL$564
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$300
- PRIMATRIX$300
- 3M Avagard D$236
- ACTIV.A.C.$236
- PREVENA$236
- HemoBlast Bellows$173
- AVEIR$139
- ASSURITY$131
- ZEJULA$121
- Confirm Rx$115
How this compares
$6,121 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 47 trauma 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 trauma surgery in Newark
- Melissa GrigsbyNewark$1K
- Christopher GrahamNewark$30
- Yesha ManiarNewark$14
- Adam KayeHackensack$133K
- Bruno MolinoJersey City$14K
- Pankaj PatelAtlantic City$11K
- Ravikumar BrahmbhattJersey City$9K
- Tanya EgodageCamden$9K
- John ChovanesCamden$8K
- Karla EcheverriaCamden$8K
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.