Has Michael Kelly received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,665,050 in general payments to Michael Kelly across 79 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 Kelly 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 Kelly 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 Kelly

Orthopaedic Surgery · Hackensack, NJNPI 1881634418

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $9,534,631 of the $9,665,050 with a category attached, or 98.7%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 98.7% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2023 is the largest year on record at $5,286,459, 5.4 times the $970,429 reported in 2019. Among 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.

$9,665,050in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 79 payments — averaging $122,342 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$9.5M
Think Surgical, Inc.$112K
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$7K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$804
Johnson & Johnson$409
plus $922 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$9,534,63199%
Consulting fees$126,5221%
Speaking & faculty fees$7500%
Travel & lodging$9810%
Food & beverage$2,0830%
Education$830%

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
Zimmer Biomet	36	$9,539,013
Think Surgical, Inc.	12	$111,828
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$7,384
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$4,690
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$804
Johnson & Johnson	10	$409
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$200
Limacorporate S.p.a.	1	$192
Globus Medical	2	$175
Lima USA, Inc.	2	$116
Smith+Nephew	1	$112
Canary Medical USA LLC	1	$61
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$19
Medtronic	1	$17
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$16
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	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.

How this compares

$9,665,050 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 587 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Jersey.

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Other orthopaedic surgery in Hackensack

Yair KissinHackensack$175K
Oscar VazquezHackensack$87K
Thomas JohnHackensack$59K
Luis GrauHackensack$53K
Mark HartzbandParamus$9.4M
Randal BetzLawrenceville$3M
Luke AustinSewell$2.9M
Kenneth MontgomeryMorristown$2.7M
Zachary PostEgg Harbor Township$1.7M
Harlan LevineMontvale$1.5M

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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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