Teja Karukonda, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Teaneck, NJNPI 1811308489
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (57.2%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 61.9% of it on its own, with 40 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $63,809 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $8,002 in 2025. 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 354 payments — averaging $296.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$65K
- Spineart USA Inc$19K
- Johnson & Johnson$8K
- Xtant Medical Inc$4K
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- plus $6K from 35 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,69313%
- Grants$60,00057%
- Travel & lodging$9,6949%
- Food & beverage$21,58121%
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.
- PERLA C$5,841
- SCARLET$4,000
- Scarlet AL-T$2,694
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,915
- Quartex$1,088
- EXPEDIUM$821
- VIPER$753
- SYMPHONY$714
- Perla TL$675
- Teligen$598
- iFuse Implant$574
- CARESTREAM DRX-1 System$565
- ACIS$564
- FIBERGRAFT Aeridyan Matrix$519
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$485
- Velys$408
- CONDUIT$355
- ACP$303
- MazorX - Renaissance$291
- GAMMA$285
How this compares
$104,969 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 34 | $190 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 17 | $120 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 19 | $112 |
| Meloxicam | 30 | $111 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Teaneck
- 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.