Jason Schaechter, MD
Anesthesiology · Berkeley Heights, NJNPI 1275793366
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $533 of the $875 with a category attached, or 61.0%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by BD at 37.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $469 and has fallen 84.0% since, to $75 in 2025.
Across 38 payments — averaging $23.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- BD$325
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$226
- AbbVie$177
- Merck$41
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$39
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$18
- plus $50 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$162%
- Speaking & faculty fees$32537%
- Food & beverage$53361%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BD | 1 | $325 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $226 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $177 |
| Merck | 3 | $41 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$875 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,430 anesthesiology 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.
Other anesthesiology in Berkeley Heights
- Adam ThalerBerkeley Heights$63K
- Yitzhak BelshBerkeley Heights$29K
- Faraz SyedBerkeley Heights$5K
- Mark SteinBerkeley Heights$4K
- Aryeh ShanderEnglewood$762K
- Ronak DesaiCamden$343K
- Joseph StaufferSkillman$95K
- Baher YanniEast Windsor$82K
- Elizabeth RocheWoodcliff Lake$45K
- William LeeSomerset$39K
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.