Sheldon Lin, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Newark, NJNPI 1952475022
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (55.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. accounts for 65.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,727 and has fallen 96.7% since, to $91 in 2025.
Across 43 payments — averaging $161.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$5K
- Novastep Inc.$932
- Stryker$580
- Royal Biologics, Inc.$252
- Zimmer Biomet$158
- Medtronic$136
- plus $334 from 6 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $12,932 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.
- DJO, LLC$236K
- Ferring International Pharmascience Center US$10K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,82555%
- Travel & lodging$5488%
- Food & beverage$2,58537%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 11 | $4,567 |
| Novastep Inc. | 13 | $932 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 6 | $580 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 2 | $252 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $158 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $136 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 1 | $91 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $84 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $59 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Lapiplasty System$4,373
- Fibrinet$252
- PECA Bunion Correction System$213
- AUGMENT$206
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$144
- INBONE$144
- Viaflow$141
- GRAFTON$136
- Accelero-None$123
How this compares
$6,958 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 542 foot and ankle 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.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Newark
- Keith CookNewark$78K
- Adam BernatskyNewark$12K
- John CozzarelliBelleville$932K
- Matthew RegulskiToms River$843K
- Michael SubikLyndhurst$529K
- Krupa PatelMorris Plains$281K
- Johanna GodoyWayne$254K
- Andrew BriefRidgewood$253K
- Mark SolomonCedar Knolls$232K
- Evan AdlerOld Bridge$195K
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.