Simon Salerno, MD
Neurological Surgery · Wall Township, NJNPI 1962455303
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (35.1%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 42 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 32.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $62,412 and has fallen 55.3% since, to $27,914 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 842 payments — averaging $326.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$90K
- Stryker$36K
- Medtronic$34K
- Expanding Innovations, Inc.$32K
- Si-bone, Inc.$22K
- Johnson & Johnson$10K
- plus $52K from 36 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $4204.00 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.
- Medtronic$4K
Across 4 payments — averaging $7710.30 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Expanding Innovations, Inc.$31K
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.
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
$275,224 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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
- Ira GoldsteinMontclair$344K
- Karthik MadhavanCherry Hill$291K
- Shabbar DanishNeptune$267K
- Adam LipsonUnion$187K
- Mohammed KhanOradell$178K
- Steven YocomCamden$153K
- Jeremy SteinbergerTeaneck$106K
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.