Has Joseph Bernardini, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,466 in general payments to Joseph Bernardini, MD across 32 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 Joseph Bernardini, 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 Joseph Bernardini, 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.

Joseph Bernardini, MD

Sports Medicine · Vineland, NJNPI 1134128580

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $919 of the $1,466 with a category attached, or 62.7%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 56.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,093 and has fallen 93.5% since, to $71 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for sports medicine clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $1,237.

$1,466in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $45.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$821
Terumo BCT, Inc.$170
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$81
Bioventus LLC$81
Misonix Inc$76
Abbott$51
plus $187 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$53136%
Food & beverage$91963%
Education$161%

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
Stryker	7	$821
Terumo BCT, Inc.	3	$170
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$81
Bioventus LLC	2	$81
Misonix Inc	2	$76
Abbott	2	$51
Axogen	1	$32
Johnson & Johnson	2	$32
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	2	$31
Smith+Nephew	1	$28
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$24
Medtronic	1	$23
Zimmer Biomet	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.

AXSOS$667
VARIAX$531
T2$531
GAMMA$531

How this compares

$1,466 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 221 sports medicine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$5,765

Medicare patients

Services billed

105

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
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	37	$1,099

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Vineland

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Nicholas JarmonFreehold$277K
Thomas YoumEnglewood$221K
Stephen HuntCedar Knolls$76K
David PorterHackensack$63K
Francis AlbertaHackensack$61K
Nathan HolmesSewell$56K
Steven FreyWoodbury$55K
Lon CastleFranklin Lakes$54K

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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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