Has Karl Strom, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $26,097 in general payments to Karl Strom, MD across 226 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 Karl Strom, 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 Karl Strom, 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.

Karl Strom, MD

Surgery · Glen Ridge, NJNPI 1831249275

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 66.9% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $12,667 and has fallen 89.2% since, to $1,364 in 2025. Among 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.

$26,097in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 226 payments — averaging $115.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$17K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
Ambu Inc.$1K
Teleflex LLC$971
Intra-sana Laboratories$846
Intuitive Surgical$706
plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$13,95053%
Travel & lodging$9334%
Food & beverage$11,21443%

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
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	61	$17,449
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	55	$3,456
Ambu Inc.	17	$1,487
Teleflex LLC	16	$971
Intra-sana Laboratories	22	$846
Intuitive Surgical	14	$706
Medtronic	5	$326
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	13	$181
TELA Bio, Inc.	2	$180
Stryker	1	$117
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	4	$59
Olympus America Inc.	1	$55
Conmed Corporation	2	$50
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$45
Covidien LP	2	$43
Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited	2	$33
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$32
Novo Nordisk	2	$29
Solventum Corporation	1	$16
Polarityte, Inc.	1	$15

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.

ENSEAL Product Family$12,822
HARMONIC Product Family$12,719
Enseal$2,250
Harmonic$2,250
Reltone 200 Mg$576
Reltone 400 Mg$576
SYNECOR Biomaterial$509
GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$506
GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$485
GLYCATE$445
LINX Reflux Management System$225
Signia$155
TITAN SGS BAILOUT CHUCK$151
TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$142
Echelon Flex$139
OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$130
1788$117
ECHELON ENDOPATH$112
LigaSure$109
GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$109

How this compares

$26,097 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 593 surgery providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$54,563

Medicare patients

132

Services billed

225

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
Omeprazole	60	$692

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Glen Ridge

Harvey RainvilleGlen Ridge$159K
Robert PerezHainesport$2M
Eric WhitmanMorristown$848K
Jarrod KaufmanBrick$474K
Amit TrivediParamus$242K
Young HongCamden$203K
Harrison CotlerOakhurst$149K
Francis PrevitiNorth Field$131K
David DupreeTinton Falls$124K
Patricia MartzCape May Court House$98K

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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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