Sunil Thacker, MD
Sports Medicine · Ocean, NJNPI 1053455345
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $35,100 of the $48,787 with a category attached, or 71.9%. Maxx Orthopedics, Inc. accounts for 84.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $35,170 and has fallen 94.3% since, to $2,022 in 2025. Among sports medicine 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 76 payments — averaging $641.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Maxx Orthopedics, Inc.$41K
- Arthrex$4K
- Seapearl East, Inc$2K
- Maxx Health Inc$844
- Johnson & Johnson$183
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$114
- plus $117 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$35,10072%
- Travel & lodging$9,22419%
- Food & beverage$3,2647%
- Education$1,2002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Maxx Orthopedics, Inc. | 4 | $41,144 |
| Arthrex | 25 | $4,049 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 26 | $2,337 |
| Maxx Health Inc | 2 | $844 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $183 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Vertex | 2 | $32 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Freedom Total Knee System$41,144
- Summa Wrist System$535
- Summa Hand System$535
- Summa Clavicle System$309
How this compares
$48,787 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 221 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 18 | $7,683 |
| Lidocaine | 23 | $1,524 |
| Celecoxib | 46 | $1,097 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 33 | $210 |
| Naproxen | 20 | $152 |
| Meloxicam | 23 | $134 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Ocean
- Sean McMillanBurlington$1.8M
- Nicholas JarmonFreehold$277K
- Thomas YoumEnglewood$221K
- Stephen HuntCedar Knolls$76K
- David PorterHackensack$63K
- Francis AlbertaHackensack$61K
- Nathan HolmesSewell$56K
- Steven FreyWoodbury$55K
- Lon CastleFranklin Lakes$54K
- Dante MarconiSomers Point$49K
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.