Paul Abend, DO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Metuchen, NJNPI 1922165349
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $148 of the $166 with a category attached, or 89.2%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Curonix LLC at 24.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $79 and has fallen 83.0% since, to $13 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $187.
Across 9 payments — averaging $18.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Curonix LLC$40
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$37
- Medtronic$34
- Nevro Corp.$17
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$13
- Amgen$13
- plus $12 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$14889%
- Education$1811%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $40 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $34 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $17 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$166 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 434 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in New Jersey.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 31 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Metuchen
- Steven EscaldiEdison$70K
- Yekyung KongWest Orange$61K
- Joseph IbrahimBayonne$50K
- Steven KirshblumWest Orange$47K
- Joseph ValenzaChester$29K
- Christine GreissEdison$28K
- Bianca MartinezManasquan$25K
- Jason SmithCedar Knolls$19K
- Sandeep RathiLakewood$14K
- Anand PooleriCamden$13K
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.