Huong Truong, MD
Vascular Surgery · New Brunswick, NJNPI 1023492972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $24,166 of the $29,901 with a category attached, or 80.8%. It is spread thinly across 33 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,989, 2.5 times the $2,816 reported in 2019. Among vascular 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 320 payments — averaging $93.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bolton Medical Inc$7K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- plus $11K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2501%
- Travel & lodging$5,28218%
- Food & beverage$24,16681%
- Education$1821%
- Other$210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bolton Medical Inc | 69 | $6,974 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 51 | $4,419 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 23 | $2,377 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $1,945 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 14 | $1,905 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $1,720 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,527 |
| Stryker | 12 | $1,353 |
| Endologix LLC | 10 | $1,171 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 10 | $1,124 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 20 | $968 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 13 | $644 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $555 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $514 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $418 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $410 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 5 | $393 |
| Smith+Nephew | 20 | $335 |
| Abbott | 3 | $170 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $151 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 1 | $129 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $122 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $119 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 5 | $113 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $58 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
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.
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$2,539
- Grafts$1,981
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,895
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$1,722
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$1,722
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$1,710
- ENDURANT IIS$1,404
- Relay Grafts$1,285
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,002
- INTEGRA$853
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$809
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$622
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$612
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$609
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$571
- Azur CX Detachable$516
- LIMFLOW SYSTEM$440
- CLOTTRIEVER BOLD CATHETER$415
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$411
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$403
How this compares
$29,901 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 182 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 30 | $22,972 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 45 | $423 |
| Cilostazol | 20 | $251 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $130 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in New Brunswick
- William BeckermanNew Brunswick$176K
- Saum RahimiNew Brunswick$90K
- Randy ShafritzNew Brunswick$18K
- Steven EliasEnglewood$509K
- Michael WildermanHackensack$383K
- David O'ConnorHackensack$272K
- Joseph LombardiPomona$266K
- Neil PoulsenRockaway$148K
- Massimo NapolitanoWayne$147K
- Laurel HastingsCamden$98K
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.