Nicholas Phillips, DO
Hand Surgery · Edison, NJNPI 1568741098
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (53.3%), food and beverage and other — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Liberty Surgical Inc. at 53.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,504 and has fallen 94.5% since, to $83 in 2025.
Across 43 payments — averaging $87.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$394
- Stryker$284
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$277
- Acumed LLC$116
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$87
- plus $590 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,66144%
- Education$1,99453%
- Other$872%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 2 | $1,994 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $394 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 9 | $284 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 4 | $277 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $116 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $87 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $84 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $77 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 1 | $48 |
| One Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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
$3,742 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 87 hand 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 18 | $403 |
| Ibuprofen | 36 | $204 |
| Cefadroxil | 12 | $189 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $81 |
| Meloxicam | 37 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Edison
- Charles LeinberryEgg Harbor Twp$3.1M
- John CapoJersey City$1.1M
- Virak TanNewark$711K
- Gary PessEatontown$212K
- Mark RekantCherry Hill$209K
- Teddy AtikEatontown$37K
- Bishoy SaadJersey City$33K
- Genghis NiverFlorham Park$27K
- Michael VosbikianNewark$26K
- Linda ChaoCape May Court House$19K
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.