Joel Braver, MD
Radiation Oncology · Somerville, NJNPI 1891791174
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $247 of the $332 with a category attached, or 74.4%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 25.6% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for radiation oncology clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $491.
Across 11 payments — averaging $30.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$85
- Novocure Inc.$63
- Mevion_medical_systems_inc$52
- Palette Life Sciences, Inc.$28
- Brainlab, Inc.$24
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$18
- plus $62 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$24774%
- Education$8526%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $85 |
| Novocure Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Mevion_medical_systems_inc | 1 | $52 |
| Palette Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $16 |
| Bayer | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$332 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 132 radiation oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mometasone Furoate | 42 | $858 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 28 | $610 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other radiation oncology in Somerville
- Michael GreenbergCherry Hill$335K
- Glen GejermanHackensack$180K
- Marc RudoltzWest Orange$166K
- Salma JabbourNew Brunswick$163K
- Edward SoffenMonroe Twp$50K
- Adnan DanishWayne$45K
- Timothy ChenPennington$43K
- Brett LewisHackensack$23K
- Sang SimLong Branch$16K
- Thomas KoleMiddletown$8K
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.