Shalin Patel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Bloomfield, NJNPI 1124387881
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.7%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 33 manufacturers reported payments, led by Precision Spine, Inc. at 53.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $21,255 and has fallen 78.8% since, to $4,507 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 157 payments — averaging $329.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Precision Spine, Inc.$27K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$7K
- Spine Wave, Inc.$2K
- 4web, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- plus $10K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23,65046%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,00017%
- Travel & lodging$7,46414%
- Food & beverage$11,61822%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 24 | $27,426 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 10 | $6,667 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 6 | $2,193 |
| 4web, Inc. | 10 | $2,193 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $1,954 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,756 |
| Spineology Inc. | 7 | $1,656 |
| Stryker | 17 | $1,418 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $1,182 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $1,115 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 4 | $682 |
| Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC | 1 | $658 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 9 | $555 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 3 | $336 |
| Abbott | 5 | $301 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $298 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $214 |
| Stability Biologics, LLC | 2 | $159 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $156 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 2 | $155 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $101 |
| Elevation Spine, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $46 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $24 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $18 |
| Captiva Spine Inc | 1 | $5 |
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.
- SURELOK MIS 3L$13,079
- MD Vue Lateral Access System$12,079
- REFORM TI CT MODULAR MIS PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$8,470
- Dakota ACDF System$8,000
- NEXGEN ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$8,000
- MagnetOs$6,387
- DAKOTA ALIF SYSTEM$4,417
- INTERVERTEBRAL BODY FUSION DEVICE$2,000
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$1,886
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$1,633
- VIPER$1,520
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$1,168
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,090
- ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$1,025
- SALVO SPINE SYSTEM$500
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$433
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$374
- STALIF M-Ti$330
- SPINAL IMPLANT$261
- TRYPTIK Ti$201
How this compares
$51,732 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 587 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 39 | $303 |
| Gabapentin | 31 | $191 |
| Meloxicam | 36 | $110 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $102 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Bloomfield
- Michael KellyHackensack$9.7M
- Mark HartzbandParamus$9.4M
- Randal BetzLawrenceville$3M
- Luke AustinSewell$2.9M
- Kenneth MontgomeryMorristown$2.7M
- Zachary PostEgg Harbor Township$1.7M
- Harlan LevineMontvale$1.5M
- Jeffrey AbramsPrinceton$1.5M
- Gregg KleinParamus$1.5M
- David NazarianMarlton$1.3M
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.