James Gardner, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Summit, NJNPI 1386676088
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,409 of the $3,110 with a category attached, or 77.5%. Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. accounts for 68.4% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,392 and has fallen 64.1% since, to $500 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $60.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$428
- AbbVie$260
- Sientra, Inc.$136
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$38
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$25
- plus $96 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$70123%
- Food & beverage$2,40977%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 19 | $2,127 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 15 | $428 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $260 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 3 | $136 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Axogen | 1 | $19 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 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.
- ALLODERM$131
How this compares
$3,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 93 plastic and reconstructive 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $73 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Summit
- David DanielsSummit$6K
- Sara ColeCherry Hill$63K
- Edward LeeRahway$50K
- Eric ChangFlorham Park$41K
- Colin FaileyFlorham Park$40K
- Steve FallekEnglewood$34K
- Barry DibernardoMontclair$31K
- Michael NagyManasquan$27K
- John TaylorRed Bank$18K
- Francisco ColonFlorham Park$16K
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.