Lara Kozin, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Scotch Plains, NJNPI 1235584616
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $78.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Seapearl East, Inc$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$285
- Smith+Nephew$144
- Ossio Inc$132
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$115
- plus $459 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3026%
- Food & beverage$2,65150%
- Education$2,40045%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seapearl East, Inc | 6 | $2,509 |
| Stryker | 21 | $1,723 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 5 | $285 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $144 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $132 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $115 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $46 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $44 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $19 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $19 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $16 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
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.
- INFINITY$302
- CITREFIX$282
- PROstep$233
- FLEXBAND$167
- Actishield$146
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$119
- VARIAX$119
- EASYFUSE$114
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$114
- Seglentis$102
How this compares
$5,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 542 foot & ankle surgery 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 11 | $516 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 15 | $237 |
| Mupirocin | 22 | $113 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 15 | $94 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Scotch Plains
- Wayne BerberianNewark$2M
- John CozzarelliBelleville$932K
- Matthew RegulskiToms River$847K
- Shane HollawellManasquan$753K
- Michael SubikLyndhurst$529K
- Krupa PatelMorris Plains$281K
- Johanna GodoyWayne$254K
- Andrew BriefRidgewood$253K
- Sheldon LinNewark$253K
- Mark SolomonCedar Knolls$232K
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.