James Kanellakos, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Morristown, NJNPI 1750499455
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.2%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 48.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,218, more than ten times the $83 reported in 2020. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $2,530.
Across 26 payments — averaging $114.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$151
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$141
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$130
- Davol Inc.$49
- plus $55 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2559%
- Food & beverage$1,72758%
- Education$98733%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 6 | $1,439 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $1,004 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $151 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $141 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $31 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $24 |
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
$2,969 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 587 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 59 | $983 |
| Meloxicam | 141 | $446 |
| Methylprednisolone | 63 | $357 |
| Amoxicillin | 206 | $345 |
| Prednisone | 95 | $316 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 46 | $251 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 30 | $142 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 23 | $131 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 47 | $87 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 64 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Morristown
- Kenneth MontgomeryMorristown$2.7M
- Michael KellyHackensack$9.7M
- Mark HartzbandParamus$9.4M
- Randal BetzLawrenceville$3M
- Luke AustinSewell$2.9M
- Zachary PostEgg Harbor Township$1.7M
- Harlan LevineMontvale$1.5M
- Jeffrey AbramsPrinceton$1.5M
- Gregg KleinParamus$1.5M
- David NazarianMarlton$1.3M
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.