Justin Elkrief, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Freehold, NJNPI 1285052225
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.7%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.2%. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,370 and has fallen 83.5% since, to $556 in 2025.
Across 144 payments — averaging $85.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$988
- Johnson & Johnson$924
- plus $3K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,99549%
- Food & beverage$6,10450%
- Education$1892%
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 | 17 | $2,358 |
| Medtronic | 22 | $1,948 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 7 | $1,607 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 17 | $1,335 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 9 | $988 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 20 | $924 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 3 | $667 |
| Globus Medical | 11 | $481 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 11 | $327 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $263 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $189 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 3 | $182 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $172 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $141 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $124 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $119 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $42 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $33 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Abbott | 2 | $29 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- XIA$1,709
- Mariner MIS$805
- ACTIVL$754
- VIPER$719
- AERO$696
- ES2$696
- TRITANIUM$696
- SERRATO$696
- 7D Surgical System$636
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$610
- EXPEDIUM$468
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$316
- SYNFLATE$217
- Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$189
- XLIF$183
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$164
- VARIAX$157
- GELSYN 3$152
- NEURAGEN$141
- TENOGLIDE$141
How this compares
$12,287 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 84 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Jersey.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 54 | $758 |
| Celecoxib | 17 | $577 |
| Gabapentin | 64 | $522 |
| Methylprednisolone | 60 | $341 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 29 | $157 |
| Naproxen | 17 | $145 |
| Meloxicam | 36 | $83 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 25 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Freehold
- Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
- James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
- Justin KubeckToms River$309K
- Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
- Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
- Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K
- Gordon DonaldEatontown$167K
- Grigory GoldbergOcean$161K
- Ki HwangWayne$147K
- James HaleTeaneck$128K
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.