Thomas St John, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Flemington, NJNPI 1710941851
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.5%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 73.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $6,857.
Across 50 payments — averaging $60.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$393
- Si-bone, Inc.$183
- Seapearl East, Inc$98
- Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$17
- Promius Pharma LLC$15
- plus $98 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,29543%
- Food & beverage$1,64954%
- Education$833%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 30 | $2,224 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $393 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $183 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 1 | $98 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Promius Pharma LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$3,027 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 84 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Jersey.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 58 | $186 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $154 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $98 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $76 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $54 |
| Amoxicillin | 24 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Flemington
- Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
- James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
- Justin KubeckToms River$309K
- Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
- Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
- Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K
- Gordon DonaldEatontown$167K
- Grigory GoldbergOcean$161K
- Ki HwangWayne$147K
- James HaleTeaneck$128K
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.