Gary Kline, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Hackensack, NJNPI 1497825830
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,039 of the $5,601 with a category attached, or 72.1%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Convatec Inc. at 45.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,584, 5.0 times the $513 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $4,549.
Across 130 payments — averaging $43.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Convatec Inc.$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$736
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$353
- Endologix LLC$345
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$313
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$257
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,56228%
- Food & beverage$4,03972%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Convatec Inc. | 15 | $2,546 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 39 | $736 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 18 | $353 |
| Endologix LLC | 6 | $345 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $313 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $257 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 12 | $230 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $176 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $125 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $53 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 3 | $51 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $45 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $43 |
| BD | 2 | $39 |
| Merck | 2 | $30 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$5,601 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Hackensack
- Leonard LeeHackensack$143K
- Yuriy DudiyHackensack$37K
- Daniel MansourHackensack$13K
- Geoffrey PelzHackensack$13K
- Elie ElmannHackensack$8K
- Michael SpalloneHackensack$7K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$219K
- Adam ArnofskyEnglewood$132K
- Igor GosevNewark$118K
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.