Has John Gillick, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $89,856 in general payments to John Gillick, MD across 251 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Gillick, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Gillick, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Gillick, MD

Neurological Surgery · Newark, NJNPI 1821499344

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (35.6%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 41.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $30,146, 4.5 times the $6,719 reported in 2019. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$89,856in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 251 payments — averaging $357.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$38K
Baxter Healthcare$23K
Globus Medical$8K
Stryker$8K
Bioventus LLC$5K
4web, Inc.$3K
plus $5K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$19,16021%
Speaking & faculty fees$31,97536%
Travel & lodging$18,98321%
Food & beverage$17,09819%
Education$2,6403%

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
Medtronic	66	$37,620
Baxter Healthcare	59	$22,503
Globus Medical(2 entities)	36	$8,263
Stryker	55	$8,173
Bioventus LLC	9	$4,783
4web, Inc.	10	$3,077
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	1	$1,800
Alphatec Spine, Inc	5	$1,741
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc.	1	$1,200
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$172
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$138
Next Science LLC	1	$135
Boston Scientific	1	$101
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$101
MML US, Inc.	1	$31
Medicrea USA, Corp.	1	$19

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.

CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$32,343
FLOSEAL$14,879
ACTIFUSE$4,023
SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$3,004
TRITANIUM$2,902
O-ARM$2,338
BONESCALPEL & SONICONE (O.R.)$2,250
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,846
Sable$1,588
Other - Miscellaneous$1,311
ELSA ATP$1,136
ACP$1,095
EXCELSIUS$958
XLIF$900
INFINITY OCCIPITOCERVICAL UPPER THORACIC SYSTEM$800
MARS 3VL$693
MARS 3VL Retractor$652
NONE$592
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$571
NAVIGATOR$541

How this compares

$89,856 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 174 neurological surgery providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$38,294

Medicare patients

Services billed

149

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
Gabapentin	78	$824
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	33	$600
Pregabalin	32	$453
Baclofen	23	$218
Tizanidine Hcl	29	$124

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Newark

Robert HearyNewark$1M
Michael SchulderNewark$55K
Antonios MammisNewark$44K
Chirag GandhiNewark$16K
Amit SinglaNewark$9K
Harshpal SinghHackensack$677K
Ira GoldsteinMontclair$344K
Karthik MadhavanCherry Hill$291K
Simon SalernoWall Township$275K
Shabbar DanishNeptune$267K

See the full list for New Jersey →

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.

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