Michael Distefano
Orthopaedic Surgery · Paramus, NJNPI 1407883887
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 158 payments — averaging $39.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Arthrex$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$419
- Seapearl East, Inc$317
- Amgen$316
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$196
- plus $933 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,96779%
- Education$1,29921%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 59 | $2,751 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $1,334 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 17 | $419 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 5 | $317 |
| Amgen | 26 | $316 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 14 | $196 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $84 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $70 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $65 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $58 |
| BD | 1 | $48 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $33 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $22 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Synergy Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- MAKO$1,111
- ACCOLADE$769
- TRIATHLON$636
- ADAPT$144
- i-FACTOR Putty$113
How this compares
$6,266 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 587 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Jersey.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Paramus
- Mark HartzbandParamus$9.4M
- Gregg KleinParamus$1.6M
- Michael AstParamus$1.3M
- Ajay LallParamus$596K
- Ari SeidensteinParamus$285K
- Eitan KohanParamus$73K
- Michael KellyHackensack$9.7M
- Luke AustinSewell$4.3M
- Randal BetzLawrenceville$3M
- Kenneth MontgomeryMorristown$2.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.