Steven Shamash, DO
Hand Surgery · Fair Lawn, NJNPI 1780841312
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.8%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Seapearl East, Inc accounts for 64.0% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,127 and has fallen 67.9% since, to $683 in 2025.
Across 109 payments — averaging $88.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Seapearl East, Inc$6K
- Stryker$750
- Johnson & Johnson$492
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$326
- Endo USA, Inc.$267
- Arthrex$263
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$901%
- Travel & lodging$95810%
- Food & beverage$4,89851%
- Education$3,70138%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seapearl East, Inc | 58 | $6,171 |
| Stryker | 9 | $750 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $492 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $326 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 9 | $267 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $263 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $262 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $189 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Axogen | 2 | $140 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $97 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $55 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $39 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 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.
- NA$277
- VA-LCP$269
- Biomet SpinalPak$258
- VARIAX$237
- Geminus$236
- Align$236
- IJS$236
- Implate$236
- MaxxCell$167
- PRECICE$162
- MAKO$155
- XIAFLEX$149
- INnate Implant$145
- InFrame Implant$145
- NanoPhix Implant$145
- ADAPT$144
- Magellan$141
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$134
- MITEK CRUCIATE+$134
- Gryphon Orthocord$134
How this compares
$9,647 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 87 hand 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 hand surgery in Fair Lawn
- Charles EksteinFair Lawn$4K
- Charles LeinberryEgg Harbor Twp$3.1M
- John CapoJersey City$1.1M
- Virak TanNewark$711K
- Gary PessEatontown$212K
- Mark RekantCherry Hill$209K
- Teddy AtikEatontown$37K
- Bishoy SaadJersey City$33K
- Genghis NiverFlorham Park$27K
- Michael VosbikianNewark$26K
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.