Garen Ream, DPM
Podiatrist · Old Bridge, NJNPI 1194188565
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,089 of the $4,578 with a category attached, or 67.5%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. at 26.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,075 and has fallen 65.9% since, to $707 in 2025.
Across 48 payments — averaging $95.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$555
- Derma Sciences, Inc.$249
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$175
- Seapearl East, Inc$174
- plus $984 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2896%
- Food & beverage$3,08967%
- Education$1,20026%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 2 | $1,228 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 15 | $1,213 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 3 | $555 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $249 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $175 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 4 | $174 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $157 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $149 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $143 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $134 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $120 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $105 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $34 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Product Portfolio$540
- PRIMATRIX$352
- INTEGRA$307
- AMNIOEXCEL$249
- TCC-EZ$249
- IDRT$249
- OMNIGRAFT$249
- CITREFIX$221
- INFINITY$156
- Viaflow$151
- Stravix$149
- VARIAX$148
- FIXOS$148
- ALLOWRAP$148
- Trinity ELITE$136
- AmnioMaxx$126
- AUGMENT$125
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$117
- Actishield$117
- PROSTEP MICA$104
How this compares
$4,578 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 382 podiatrist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 73 | $1,881 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 37 | $1,423 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 44 | $1,283 |
| Imiquimod | 11 | $976 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 39 | $936 |
| Clotrimazole | 14 | $549 |
| Mupirocin | 11 | $71 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Old Bridge
- Jason GrossmanOld Bridge$7K
- Justin FlemingSomerset$1.2M
- Eric BaskinManahawkin$298K
- Jonathan RichardsEnglewood$79K
- Jack BondiSewell$53K
- Matthew WohlgemuthHammonton$49K
- Ritchard RosenEnglewood$44K
- Michael HuchitalLyndhurst$41K
- Jeffrey GewirtzPark Ridge$24K
- James SullivanSea Girt$19K
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.