Paul Saphier, MD
Neurological Surgery · Morristown, NJNPI 1154516532
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (47.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Penumbra, Inc. accounts for 70.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,379 and has fallen 91.9% since, to $275 in 2025.
Across 43 payments — averaging $190.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$6K
- Balt USA, LLC$804
- Qapel Medical Inc$703
- Stryker$416
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$145
- Medtronic$115
- plus $221 from 5 others
Across 79 payments — averaging $1941.04 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Penumbra, Inc.$153K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,90048%
- Travel & lodging$5377%
- Food & beverage$3,73346%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 13 | $5,765 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 7 | $804 |
| Qapel Medical Inc | 3 | $703 |
| Stryker | 11 | $416 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $115 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $76 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $30 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Penumbra System$3,078
- Artemis$2,307
- Optima Thermal Coil System$386
- Optima Coil System$367
- Benchmark$211
- TRITANIUM$170
- ES2$170
- XIA$170
- VLIFT$170
- CorPath GRX$145
- Pipeline$115
How this compares
$8,170 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 174 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 28 | $361 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Morristown
- Scott MeyerMorristown$51K
- Kimberly AshayeriMorristown$14K
- Robert HearyNewark$1M
- Harshpal SinghHackensack$677K
- Ira GoldsteinMontclair$344K
- Karthik MadhavanCherry Hill$291K
- Simon SalernoWall Township$275K
- Shabbar DanishNeptune$267K
- Adam LipsonUnion$187K
- Mohammed KhanOradell$178K
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.