Gary Pess, MD
Hand Surgery · Eatontown, NJNPI 1881688794
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $136,805 of the $211,608 with a category attached, or 64.7%. Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. accounts for 80.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $61,437 and has fallen 71.6% since, to $17,427 in 2025. Among hand surgery clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 195 payments — averaging $1085.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$170K
- Endo USA, Inc.$41K
- Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$56
- Trice Medical, Inc.$50
- Fujifilm New Development USA, Inc.$48
- Zimmer Biomet$39
- plus $17 from 1 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $1183.33 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.
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$390%
- Consulting fees$40,91019%
- Speaking & faculty fees$136,80565%
- Travel & lodging$29,38914%
- Food & beverage$4,3902%
- Education$750%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 167 | $170,237 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 22 | $41,160 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 2 | $56 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Fujifilm New Development USA, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $39 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
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.
- XIAFLEX$209,295
How this compares
$211,608 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 87 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 13 | $92 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 17 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Eatontown
- Teddy AtikEatontown$37K
- Gregory FedorcikEatontown$1K
- Charles LeinberryEgg Harbor Twp$3.1M
- John CapoJersey City$1.1M
- Virak TanNewark$711K
- Mark RekantCherry Hill$209K
- Bishoy SaadJersey City$33K
- Genghis NiverFlorham Park$27K
- Michael VosbikianNewark$26K
- Linda ChaoCape May Court House$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.