Matthew Amarante, MD
Neurological Surgery · Florham Park, NJNPI 1811230089
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,583 of the $8,925 with a category attached, or 85.0%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 52.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,180, 8.9 times the $245 reported in 2020.
Across 130 payments — averaging $68.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5K
- Medtronic$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$541
- Boston Scientific$474
- Nevro Corp.$256
- Globus Medical$251
- plus $690 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,34215%
- Food & beverage$7,58385%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 82 | $4,704 |
| Medtronic | 24 | $2,008 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $541 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $474 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $256 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $251 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $190 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Stryker | 1 | $135 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$2,041
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$424
- ACTIFUSE$334
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$301
- Omnia$256
- ETERNA$244
- ELEVATE$172
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$166
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$164
- INTELLIS$159
- SYNCHROMEDII$152
- Proclaim IPG$139
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$135
- Axium INS DRG IPG$135
- HEDRON IA$127
- 3D Printed Integrated ALIF Spa$125
- INFINITY$123
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$123
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$122
- CellerateRx$119
How this compares
$8,925 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 174 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 39 | $442 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Florham Park
- Arthur CarminucciFlorham Park$10K
- Robert HearyNewark$1M
- Harshpal SinghHackensack$677K
- Ira GoldsteinMontclair$344K
- Karthik MadhavanCherry Hill$291K
- Simon SalernoWall Township$275K
- Shabbar DanishNeptune$267K
- Adam LipsonUnion$187K
- Mohammed KhanOradell$178K
- Steven YocomCamden$153K
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.