Has Michael Katz, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $321 in general payments to Michael Katz, MD across 10 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 Michael Katz, 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 Michael Katz, 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.

Michael Katz, MD

Otolaryngology · Bridgewater, NJNPI 1124124805

Payments from drug & device makers

$321in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $32.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$90
Stryker$77
Abbott$72
Optinose US, Inc.$51
Novartis$17
Acclarent, Inc$15

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$321100%

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
Medtronic	2	$90
Stryker	2	$77
Abbott	3	$72
Optinose US, Inc.	1	$51
Novartis	1	$17
Acclarent, Inc	1	$15

How this compares

$321 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 232 otolaryngology providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$117,333

Medicare patients

460

Services billed

1,057

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
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	29	$3,244
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone	12	$2,827
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	49	$2,221
Azelastine-FluticasoneAzelastine/Fluticasone	11	$2,111
Ipratropium Bromide	62	$1,445
Azelastine Hcl	68	$1,265
Ofloxacin	26	$1,061
Fluticasone Propionate	64	$712
Olopatadine Hcl	11	$670
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	33	$295
Doxycycline Hyclate	17	$198
Mupirocin	19	$166
Methylprednisolone	24	$124
Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride	11	$91
Prednisone	11	$16

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Bridgewater

Mena AbrahimBridgewater$3K
Adrianna HekiertBridgewater$3K
Amy LazarBridgewater$3K
Nishant ReddyEast Windsor$133K
Justin McCormickNew Brunswick$109K
Andrew BlitzerHackensack$40K
Rakesh PatelParamus$26K
Giant LinFlorham Park$25K
Jeffrey AroestyMount Arlington$23K
Samir ShahVoorhees$16K

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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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