Naveen Ballem, MD
Surgery · Glen Ridge, NJNPI 1306971874
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 79 payments — averaging $152.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$2K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Olympus America Inc.$1K
- Covidien LP$687
- Intuitive Surgical$500
- plus $874 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,10017%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,30027%
- Travel & lodging$600%
- Food & beverage$4,98041%
- Education$5004%
- Other$1,1339%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 12 | $4,305 |
| Medtronic | 25 | $2,473 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $2,100 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $1,133 |
| Covidien LP | 7 | $687 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $500 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $150 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $142 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $122 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $102 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $96 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $90 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $66 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Heron Therapeutics, 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.
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$3,300
- Signia$2,108
- 4K CAMERA HEAD$1,133
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$681
- Da Vinci Surgical System$291
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$263
- EEA$257
- N/A$150
- Endo GIA$123
- AVYCAZ$122
How this compares
$12,073 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 593 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.
Other surgery in Glen Ridge
- Harvey RainvilleGlen Ridge$159K
- Karl StromGlen Ridge$26K
- Eric WhitmanMorristown$4.3M
- Robert PerezHainesport$2M
- Adam BergerNew Brunswick$1.7M
- Joseph HeetherHamilton$1.1M
- Young HongCamden$926K
- Jarrod KaufmanBrick$524K
- Amit TrivediParamus$273K
- Harrison CotlerOakhurst$149K
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.