Has Simon Salerno, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $310,269 in general payments to Simon Salerno, MD across 847 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Simon Salerno, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Simon Salerno, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Simon Salerno, MD

Neurological Surgery · Wall Township, NJNPI 1962455303

Payments from drug & device makers

$310,269in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 847 payments — averaging $366.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$90K
Expanding Innovations, Inc.$62K
Medtronic$38K
Stryker$36K
Si-bone, Inc.$22K
Johnson & Johnson$10K
plus $52K from 36 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$25,1329%
Consulting fees$96,57335%
Speaking & faculty fees$75,62527%
Travel & lodging$43,84916%
Food & beverage$32,95612%
Education$1,0890%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	179	$90,474
Expanding Innovations, Inc.	14	$62,494
Medtronic(2 entities)	108	$37,825
Stryker	65	$36,113
Si-bone, Inc.	51	$21,584
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	28	$9,821
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	13	$8,392
Nevro Corp.	79	$8,320
Alphatec Spine, Inc	29	$6,060
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	2	$4,459
Royal Biologics, Inc.	5	$3,146
Cerapedics Inc.	11	$2,843
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	20	$2,490
Boston Scientific	51	$2,335
Abbott	86	$1,985
Vertiflex, Inc.	11	$1,892
Painteq LLC	4	$1,404
Intrinsic Therapeutics	11	$1,354
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	7	$1,270
Spinal Elements, Inc.	19	$1,264
Seapearl East, Inc	4	$1,012
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	5	$682
MML US, Inc.	7	$614
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	4	$389
Zimmer Biomet	3	$336
Arthrex	2	$322
Brainlab, Inc.	2	$272
Livanova USA, Inc.	6	$222
4web, Inc.	4	$204
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$132
Novocure Inc.	1	$131
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	1	$126
Baxter Healthcare	3	$54
Elevation Spine, Inc.	1	$54
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$45
GT Medical Technologies, Inc	1	$35
Augmedics Inc.	1	$35
Corcept Therapeutics	1	$20
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	1	$18
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$17
Eisai Inc.	1	$14
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	1	$11

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.

RISE-L$30,373
X-PAC$28,501
NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$20,947
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$16,808
ELSA$11,775
INTELLIS$11,680
iFuse Implant$11,170
ELSA ATP$10,536
ADIRA$8,689
IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$8,550
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$8,524
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$8,242
MagnetOs$7,903
XLIF$7,700
CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$7,402
ALEUTIAN INTERBODY SYSTEMS$7,150
LITE PLATE SYSTEM$7,150
SERRATO$7,150
Modular Lateral Plate$7,013
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$5,174

How this compares

$310,269 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 174 neurological surgery providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$476,072

Medicare patients

418

Services billed

1,398

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
Gabapentin	30	$307
Oxycodone Hcl	11	$52

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Wall Township

Aasim KazmiWall Township$20K
Robert HearyNewark$1M
Harshpal SinghHackensack$677K
Yakov GologorskyEnglewood$612K
Shabbar DanishNeptune$488K
Mohammed KhanOradell$376K
Ira GoldsteinMontclair$371K
Karthik MadhavanCherry Hill$291K
Adam LipsonUnion$187K
Paul SaphierMorristown$162K

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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.

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