James Giordano, MD
Sports Medicine · Ridgewood, NJNPI 1720373632
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (40.8%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Seapearl East, Inc at 55.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,270 and has fallen 85.8% since, to $323 in 2025.
Across 71 payments — averaging $114.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Seapearl East, Inc$5K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Arthrex$1K
- Stryker$490
- Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$122
- Kerecis Limited$115
- plus $191 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,87435%
- Food & beverage$3,31741%
- Education$1,93124%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seapearl East, Inc | 24 | $4,542 |
| Smith+Nephew | 22 | $1,514 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $1,147 |
| Stryker | 5 | $490 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $115 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $59 |
| BD | 1 | $45 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $34 |
| Bioventus LLC | 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.
- Q-FIX$502
- Latarjet System$377
- HEALICOIL Suture Anchor$339
- TRUNAV$339
- GAMMA$326
- PANGEA$170
- VARIAX$170
- ULTRABUTTON$149
- SPATIAL FRAME$138
- ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair$138
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$138
- Regeneten$136
- Healicoil$136
- Firstpass$136
- Bioraptor Knotless$125
- SPEEDLOCK HIP$125
- ACCUPASS DIRECT Crescent XL$125
- Suturefix$125
- Hymovis$122
- TRILURON$122
How this compares
$8,122 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 221 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 148 | $361 |
| Methylprednisolone | 47 | $300 |
| Celecoxib | 24 | $170 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $82 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 28 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Ridgewood
- Sean McMillanBurlington$1.8M
- Nicholas JarmonFreehold$277K
- Thomas YoumEnglewood$221K
- Stephen HuntCedar Knolls$76K
- David PorterHackensack$63K
- Francis AlbertaHackensack$61K
- Nathan HolmesSewell$56K
- Steven FreyWoodbury$55K
- Lon CastleFranklin Lakes$54K
- Dante MarconiSomers Point$49K
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.