Frederick Song, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Princeton, NJNPI 1427265131
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.9%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc at 49.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $23,578 and has fallen 76.1% since, to $5,644 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 68 payments — averaging $944.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc$32K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$20K
- Linvatec Corporation$11K
- Johnson & Johnson$523
- Encore Medical, LP$276
- Zimmer Biomet$141
- plus $140 from 3 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $12,034 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$265K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$27,92944%
- Consulting fees$31,40549%
- Travel & lodging$3,0385%
- Food & beverage$1,8293%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 9 | $31,573 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 20 | $20,362 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 10 | $11,186 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 15 | $523 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 4 | $276 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $141 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| ERMI LLC | 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.
- RIGIDLOOP$19,292
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$10,529
- Bioknotless Ethibond$10,529
- HEALIX$8,763
- BIOKNOTLESS$7,875
- LINVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$6,678
- LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$6,315
- Y-KNOT$4,000
- humelock reversed shoulder$3,052
- GRYPHON$888
- LINVATEC HIP PRESERVATION SYSTEM$678
- DYNACORD$242
- G7$141
- TRUESPAN$124
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$105
How this compares
$64,201 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Princeton
- Jeffrey AbramsPrinceton$1.5M
- Brian CulpPrinceton$382K
- Hari BezwadaPrinceton$346K
- Michael KellyHackensack$9.7M
- Mark HartzbandParamus$9.4M
- Randal BetzLawrenceville$3M
- Luke AustinSewell$2.9M
- Kenneth MontgomeryMorristown$2.7M
- Zachary PostEgg Harbor Township$1.7M
- Harlan LevineMontvale$1.5M
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.