Tamir Tawfik, MD
Neurological Surgery · Totowa, NJNPI 1962799221
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,286 of the $4,366 with a category attached, or 75.3%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Si-bone, Inc. at 38.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,066 and has fallen 90.0% since, to $207 in 2025.
Across 71 payments — averaging $61.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$447
- Medtronic$319
- Nevro Corp.$262
- Globus Medical$213
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$202
- plus $1K from 16 others
Across 21 payments — averaging $4466.76 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Amplify Surgical, Inc.$94K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,08025%
- Food & beverage$3,28675%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si-bone, Inc. | 19 | $1,677 |
| Stryker | 9 | $447 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $319 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $262 |
| Globus Medical | 8 | $213 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 2 | $202 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $191 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $172 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $136 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $60 |
| Abbott | 2 | $53 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $47 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $42 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $27 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $24 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Vertex | 1 | $16 |
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.
- iFuse Implant$1,101
- Medical Devices$343
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$172
- Biomet SpinalPak / OrthoPak$142
- VITOSS$130
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$130
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$125
- MYSPINE$125
- Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$113
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$108
How this compares
$4,366 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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.
Other neurological surgery in Totowa
- Robert HearyNewark$1M
- Harshpal SinghHackensack$677K
- Ira GoldsteinMontclair$344K
- Karthik MadhavanCherry Hill$291K
- Simon SalernoWall Township$275K
- 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.