Joseph Savarese
Hospitalist · Manahawkin, NJNPI 1700200953
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $899 of the $1,249 with a category attached, or 72.0%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 28.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $617 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $16 in 2025. Among hospitalist 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.
Across 43 payments — averaging $29.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$350
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$159
- Novartis$134
- Johnson & Johnson$89
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$66
- AstraZeneca$65
- plus $387 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$89972%
- Education$35028%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 1 | $350 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $159 |
| Novartis | 7 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $89 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $65 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $48 |
| Merck | 3 | $48 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $48 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $45 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $44 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $38 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $25 |
| Amgen | 1 | $23 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| Gilead | 1 | $18 |
How this compares
$1,249 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 567 hospitalist 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 hospitalist in Manahawkin
- Mohammed UsmanToms River$33K
- Justin BaptistAtlantic City$23K
- Jhonsua Jimenez AriasMorristown$15K
- Ahmed HassaninMorristown$15K
- Mohamed BakrAtlantic City$8K
- Jason NehmadNeptune$7K
- Rebecca ZweiflerMorristown$6K
- Scott KaufmanMount Holly$6K
- Kunal ParmarPompton Plains$6K
- Sameh GirgisNeptune$6K
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.