Neil Kaushal
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery · Newark, NJNPI 1275943110
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (43.2%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 79.6% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $8,331 and has fallen 67.2% since, to $2,733 in 2025. Among pediatric 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.
Across 156 payments — averaging $155.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$19K
- VB Spine LLC$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$709
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$486
- Medtronic$424
- Globus Medical$359
- plus $484 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,00037%
- Travel & lodging$4,55919%
- Food & beverage$10,47543%
- Education$2291%
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 | 90 | $19,322 |
| VB Spine LLC | 12 | $2,479 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $709 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $486 |
| Medtronic | 21 | $424 |
| Globus Medical | 7 | $359 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $172 |
| Stability Biologics, LLC | 1 | $87 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $85 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 1 | $31 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$8,525
- XIA 3$2,658
- AIRO$2,500
- TRITANIUM$1,786
- XIA$636
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$500
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$434
- ProLift$417
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$412
- The Tether$411
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$366
- INVICTUS OPEN$280
- INTELLIS$272
- MESA SMALL STATURE SPINAL SYSTEM$167
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$158
- AUTOFIX$143
- SERRATO$139
- PICO 7 Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy$125
- Allevyn Life$125
- ANCHOR L$123
How this compares
$24,263 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 32 pediatric orthopaedic surgery providers in New Jersey.
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Other pediatric orthopaedic surgery in Newark
- Osamuedenomwan Edobor-OsulaNewark$3K
- Alice ChuNewark$2K
- Mark RiegerCedar Knolls$65K
- David LinCedar Knolls$20K
- Alexandra D AgostiniCedar Knolls$7K
- Dayna PhillipsEmerson$5K
- Amit MerchantHackensack$4K
- Avrum JoffeRidgewood$4K
- Anna KatsmanCedar Knolls$2K
- Tamir BloomCedar Knolls$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.