Has Mark Rieger received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $64,733 in general payments to Mark Rieger across 203 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 Mark Rieger 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 Mark Rieger 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.

Mark Rieger

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery · Cedar Knolls, NJNPI 1831161751

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $59,718 of the $64,733 with a category attached, or 92.3%. DJO, LLC accounts for 92.3% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pediatric orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$64,733in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 203 payments — averaging $318.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

DJO, LLC$60K
Stryker$2K
Medtronic$849
Zimmer Biomet$746
Alphatec Spine, Inc$593
VB Spine LLC$242
plus $772 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$59,71892%
Travel & lodging$3,4245%
Food & beverage$1,5922%

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
DJO, LLC	161	$59,718
Stryker	12	$1,813
Medtronic	7	$849
Zimmer Biomet	8	$746
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$593
VB Spine LLC	1	$242
Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.	1	$188
Johnson & Johnson	2	$183
Highridge Medical LLC	1	$102
Zimvie Inc.	1	$72
Orthopediatrics Corp.	1	$72
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$45
Mighty Oak Medical	1	$39
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$25
Seapearl East, Inc	1	$19
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$15
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$12

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.

How this compares

$64,733 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 32 pediatric orthopaedic surgery providers in New Jersey.

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Other pediatric orthopaedic surgery in Cedar Knolls

David LinCedar Knolls$20K
Alexandra D AgostiniCedar Knolls$7K
Anna KatsmanCedar Knolls$2K
Tamir BloomCedar Knolls$2K
Joshua StrassbergCedar Knolls$1K
Samara FriedmanCedar Knolls$329
Neil KaushalNewark$24K
Dayna PhillipsEmerson$5K
Amit MerchantHackensack$4K
Avrum JoffeRidgewood$4K

See the full list for New Jersey →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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