Has Jafar Kafaie, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,553 in general payments to Jafar Kafaie, MD across 8 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 Jafar Kafaie, 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 Jafar Kafaie, 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.

Jafar Kafaie, MD

Neurology · Paramus, NJNPI 1467616094

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,438 of the $1,553 with a category attached, or 92.6%. Argenx US, Inc. accounts for 92.6% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,438 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $16 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for neurology clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $1,560.

$1,553in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $194.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Argenx US, Inc.$1K
Philips North America LLC$73
Johnson & Johnson$26
Pfizer$16

$85,770in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $4288.52 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.

Biogen$35K
Alkermes, Inc.$23K
AstraZeneca$16K
Novartis$11K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,43893%
Food & beverage$1157%

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
Argenx US, Inc.	1	$1,438
Philips North America LLC	4	$73
Johnson & Johnson	2	$26
Pfizer	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.

VYVGART$1,438

How this compares

$1,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 521 neurology providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$25,303

Medicare patients

136

Services billed

260

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
Mycophenolate Mofetil	27	$2,162
Gabapentin	74	$1,324
Pregabalin	61	$1,286
Duloxetine Hcl	33	$1,025
Pyridostigmine Bromide	23	$906
Prednisone	88	$555
Amitriptyline Hcl	29	$441
Baclofen	12	$387
Topiramate	23	$280

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurology in Paramus

Yeva FernandezParamus$67K
Eric MittelmannParamus$41K
Steven BromleyAudubon$1.5M
Mary Ann PiconeTeaneck$1.5M
Fiona GuptaOradell$1.1M
Matthew DavisMiddletown$567K
Amos KatzEatontown$558K
Monte PellmarFreehold$429K
Marcie RabinSummit$387K
Ashish KapoorBayonne$329K

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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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