Steve Paragioudakis, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Shrewsbury, NJNPI 1265517999
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $157,784 of the $163,454 with a category attached, or 96.5%. Alcon accounts for 96.5% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $158,352, more than ten times the $1,714 reported in 2019. 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 76 payments — averaging $2150.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$158K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Addivation Medical LLC$1K
- Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$774
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$602
- Nevro Corp.$305
- plus $871 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0001%
- Travel & lodging$1,5771%
- Food & beverage$3,0932%
- Other$157,78497%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 1 | $157,784 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 22 | $2,118 |
| Addivation Medical LLC | 1 | $1,000 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 8 | $774 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $602 |
| Nevro Corp. | 12 | $305 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $156 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $140 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $85 |
| Abbott | 4 | $60 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $58 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $52 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 1 | $40 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen | 2 | $26 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $8 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $5 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $4 |
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.
How this compares
$163,454 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $104 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Shrewsbury
- 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.