John Capo, MD
Hand Surgery · Jersey City, NJNPI 1982781209
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,062,802 of the $1,130,981 with a category attached, or 94.0%. Alcon Research LLC accounts for 94.0% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,099,237 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $3,182 in 2025. Among hand surgery clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 93 payments — averaging $12,161 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon Research LLC$1.1M
- Axogen$29K
- Synthes GmbH$18K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$11K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$6K
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$2K
- plus $3K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,062,80294%
- Consulting fees$18,8922%
- Speaking & faculty fees$36,7903%
- Travel & lodging$8,5521%
- Food & beverage$3,9440%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $1,062,802 |
| Axogen | 18 | $29,382 |
| Synthes GmbH | 22 | $17,729 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $10,692 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 4 | $5,927 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 7 | $1,671 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $824 |
| Stryker | 4 | $507 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $321 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $206 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $189 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 1 | $147 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $135 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $35 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $30 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 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.
- NGENUITY$1,062,802
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$29,131
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$29,131
- HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREWS$10,692
- CANNULATED SCREWS$10,080
- Geminus$1,452
- Align$1,452
- IJS$1,452
- Implate$1,452
- Iovera$782
- Kerecis SurgiClose$538
- ASNIS$146
- INnate Implant$145
- InFrame Implant$145
- NanoPhix Implant$145
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$144
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$144
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$144
- Kerecis GraftGuide$135
- VA-LCP$125
How this compares
$1,130,981 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 87 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naproxen | 208 | $2,355 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 73 | $1,917 |
| Meloxicam | 19 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Jersey City
- Bishoy SaadJersey City$33K
- Charles LeinberryEgg Harbor Twp$3.1M
- Virak TanNewark$711K
- Gary PessEatontown$212K
- Mark RekantCherry Hill$209K
- Teddy AtikEatontown$37K
- Genghis NiverFlorham Park$27K
- Michael VosbikianNewark$26K
- Linda ChaoCape May Court House$19K
- Aaron RubinsteinLinden$18K
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.