Thomas John, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Hackensack, NJNPI 1104021427
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $51,750 of the $58,736 with a category attached, or 88.1%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 91.0% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $24,383 and has fallen 95.2% since, to $1,163 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 135 payments — averaging $435.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$53K
- Stryker$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$880
- Next Science LLC$149
- Heraeus Medical, LLC.$134
- Johnson & Johnson$129
- plus $337 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$51,75088%
- Travel & lodging$3,1995%
- Food & beverage$3,7886%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 59 | $53,474 |
| Stryker | 45 | $3,633 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $880 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $149 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $129 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $46 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $38 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Amgen | 2 | $27 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
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
$58,736 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 411 | $7,003 |
| Celecoxib | 434 | $5,688 |
| Lidocaine | 55 | $4,243 |
| Methylprednisolone | 185 | $1,234 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 107 | $651 |
| Scopolamine | 25 | $365 |
| Meloxicam | 144 | $358 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 56 | $312 |
| Gabapentin | 97 | $303 |
| Nabumetone | 19 | $247 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $173 |
| Amoxicillin | 120 | $117 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 21 | $104 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 31 | $76 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 23 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Hackensack
- Michael KellyHackensack$9.7M
- Yair KissinHackensack$175K
- Oscar VazquezHackensack$87K
- Luis GrauHackensack$53K
- 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
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.