Has Ira Goldstein, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $343,706 in general payments to Ira Goldstein, MD across 195 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ira Goldstein, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ira Goldstein, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ira Goldstein, MD

Neurological Surgery · Montclair, NJNPI 1427088590

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $304,281 of the $343,706 with a category attached, or 88.5%. Globus Medical accounts for 77.8% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological 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.

$343,706in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 195 payments — averaging $1762.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$267K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$42K
Zimmer Biomet$28K
Stryker$2K
Baxter Healthcare$2K
VB Spine LLC$1K
plus $888 from 7 others

$27,512in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $6878.08 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.

AbbVie$28K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$304,28189%
Consulting fees$25,3507%
Travel & lodging$6,0812%
Food & beverage$7,8942%
Education$990%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	61	$267,363
Alphatec Spine, Inc	33	$42,179
Zimmer Biomet	47	$28,483
Stryker	21	$2,121
Baxter Healthcare	16	$1,553
VB Spine LLC	8	$1,119
Cerapedics Inc.	2	$228
Augmedics Inc.	1	$201
Bioventus LLC	2	$157
Next Science LLC	1	$135
Icotec Medical Inc.	1	$125
Johnson & Johnson	1	$26
Zimvie 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.

How this compares

$343,706 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 174 neurological surgery providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$112,525

Medicare patients

152

Services billed

438

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
Tizanidine Hcl	48	$956
Gabapentin	44	$503
Pregabalin	14	$151
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	13	$140
Methocarbamol	13	$125
Meloxicam	25	$63
Diazepam	12	$59
Tramadol Hcl	13	$42

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Montclair

Robert HearyNewark$1M
Harshpal SinghHackensack$677K
Karthik MadhavanCherry Hill$291K
Simon SalernoWall Township$275K
Shabbar DanishNeptune$267K
Adam LipsonUnion$187K
Mohammed KhanOradell$178K
Steven YocomCamden$153K
Jeremy SteinbergerTeaneck$106K
James LoweLinwood$95K

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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.

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