Thomas Steineke, MD
Neurological Surgery · Edison, NJNPI 1477553782
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $52.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Surgical Theater. Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$287
- Johnson & Johnson$277
- Abbott$138
- Novocure Inc.$137
- Ambu Inc.$118
- plus $468 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$251%
- Food & beverage$2,79999%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surgical Theater. Inc. | 8 | $1,400 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $287 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $277 |
| Abbott | 1 | $138 |
| Novocure Inc. | 6 | $137 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $100 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 6 | $94 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 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.
- INFINITY$138
- Da Vinci Surgical System$100
How this compares
$2,824 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th 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 Edison
- David Wells-RothEdison$43K
- Vanessa MilanoEdison$17K
- Aria JamshidiEdison$11K
- Robert HearyNewark$1M
- Harshpal SinghHackensack$677K
- Yakov GologorskyEnglewood$612K
- Shabbar DanishNeptune$488K
- Mohammed KhanOradell$376K
- Ira GoldsteinMontclair$371K
- Simon SalernoWall Township$310K
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.