John Chovanes, DO
Trauma Surgery · Camden, NJNPI 1124184577
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $5,920 of the $8,008 with a category attached, or 73.9%. Baxter Healthcare accounts for 92.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,134 and has fallen 97.1% since, to $208 in 2025.
Across 36 payments — averaging $222.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$7K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$149
- Heraeus Medical, LLC.$104
- Prytime Medical Devices, Inc.$85
- Smith+Nephew$77
- Johnson & Johnson$74
- plus $122 from 4 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $5000.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Baxter Healthcare$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,92074%
- Travel & lodging$91511%
- Food & beverage$1,17215%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 19 | $7,397 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $149 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $104 |
| Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $77 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $74 |
| CLR Medical, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $25 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $17 |
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.
- No Related Product$6,912
- PALACOS$104
How this compares
$8,008 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 47 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in Camden
- Tanya EgodageCamden$9K
- Karla EcheverriaCamden$8K
- Anna GoldenbergCamden$8K
- Robert DespainCamden$3K
- Keshav KooragayalaCamden$3K
- Rachel SensenigCamden$815
- Orlando KirtonCamden$715
- Nicole KrumreiCamden$586
- Salina WydoCamden$456
- Alberto NunezCamden$286
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.