Transplant Surgery in New Jersey
15 providers, $1,225,440 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays transplant surgery clinicians in New Jersey
Across 11 transplant surgery clinicians in New Jersey who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,050,059 in total — an average of $95,460 each, of which $95,460 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1James GuarreraNewark$1,021,884
- 2Michael GoldsteinHackensack$157,557
- 3Flavio PaternoNewark$14,425
- 4Caroline RochonCherry Hill$7,535
- 5Arpit AminNewark$5,327
- 6Keri LunsfordNewark$3,745
- 7Nasser YoussefCamden$3,585
- 8Ronald PelletierNew Brunswick$3,011
- 9Samuel SultanHackensack$2,674
- 10Ely SebastianCamden$2,484
- 11Adrian FisherNewark$1,453
- 12Alexey ZendelHackensack$1,179
- 13John RadomskiCamden$435
- 14Michael ShapiroHackensack$107
- 15Michael HolmanPrinceton$39