Top Internal Medicine in New Jersey by Industry Payments

This analysis ranks the top internal medicine practitioners in New Jersey by total payments received from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, based on CMS Open Payments data. The 20 providers listed here collectively received $10,652,517 over the covered period.

Data source: CMS Open Payments + Medicare Part B Coverage: 2018–2024 Providers analyzed: 20 State: New Jersey
$10,652,517
Total Industry Payments
Across all providers in this analysis
20
Providers Analyzed
With at least one payment on record
$327,720
Median Total Payments
Half of providers received more, half received less
Context: Industry payments to physicians are legally required to be disclosed under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Receiving payments does not imply wrongdoing. Payments may reflect consulting expertise, research participation, or speaking engagements. This data is provided to support transparency, not to render clinical judgments.

Top Internal Medicine by Total Industry Payments — New Jersey

CMS Open Payments
# Provider Total Payments Companies Years Active
1
Fariborz Rezai
Livingston, NJ
$2,459,609
55 2018–2024
2
David Shulkin
Morristown, NJ
$1,492,370
14 2018–2024
3
Newark, NJ
$954,001
42 2018–2024
4
Howard Uderman
Lakewood, NJ
$847,523
2 2020–2024
5
New Brunswick, NJ
$804,127
21 2018–2024
6
Martin Bedigian
Livingston, NJ
$491,400
3 2018–2024
7
Ryan Lang
Princeton, NJ
$443,150
1 2020–2022
8
Annika Dronge
Emerson, NJ
$400,601
1 2021–2023
9
Stephen Marcella
New Brunswick, NJ
$331,029
1 2023–2024
10
Galloway, NJ
$327,720
34 2018–2024
11
Rochelle Park, NJ
$258,785
34 2018–2024
12
Camden, NJ
$257,247
23 2018–2024
13
Kinnelon, NJ
$249,129
64 2018–2024
14
Glen Ridge, NJ
$244,765
35 2018–2024
15
Lyndhurst, NJ
$241,674
75 2018–2024
16
Somerville, NJ
$189,971
36 2018–2024
17
Linda Wase
Skillman, NJ
$181,650
1 2022–2024
18
Louis Baxter
Princeton, NJ
$162,483
6 2018–2019
19
Rameck Hunt
Plainsboro, NJ
$157,668
14 2018–2024
20
Secaucus, NJ
$157,615
57 2018–2024

State payment context — Internal Medicine in New Jersey

CMS Open Payments

Beyond the top recipients listed above, 3,855 internal medicine providers in New Jersey have at least one disclosed industry payment, totaling $23,048,968 (2018–2024).

The median internal medicine provider in New Jersey received $551 in total payments, versus a national median of $406 for the same specialty.

Payments to this specialty in New Jersey peaked in 2024, when $4,245,561 changed hands across 57,862 transactions. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP has been the largest single payer over the period, and Livingston leads all New Jersey cities in payment volume for this specialty.

Top companies paying Internal Medicine providers in New Jersey

Company Total payments Providers paid Transactions
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $2,664,416 1,893 37,076
Novo Nordisk Inc $1,491,363 1,590 49,327
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $1,236,796 1,557 17,314
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $590,122 1,388 17,663
Abbott Laboratories $564,729 971 7,058
Boston Scientific Corporation $563,880 618 3,484
Philips Electronics North America Corporation $563,233 351 1,502
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $539,280 1,466 22,170

Industry payments to Internal Medicine providers in New Jersey by year

Year Total payments Providers paid Transactions
2018 $3,455,811 2,428 72,126
2019 $2,893,958 2,443 72,567
2020 $1,956,129 2,111 48,855
2021 $2,756,275 2,203 57,971
2022 $3,805,054 2,326 59,030
2023 $3,936,181 2,523 59,128
2024 $4,245,561 2,538 57,862

Top New Jersey cities for Internal Medicine industry payments

City Total payments Providers paid Transactions
Livingston $3,322,324 48 5,377
New Brunswick $1,651,974 112 3,558
Morristown $1,624,096 104 5,281
Newark $1,429,232 133 10,962
Lakewood $950,223 32 5,002
Princeton $828,306 49 4,182
Camden $515,746 130 3,684
Galloway $469,275 17 1,916
Methodology Providers filtered to New Jersey-licensed internal medicine practitioners (NPI taxonomy code 207R00000X) with at least one Open Payments record. Payments aggregated across all years and all payment types. Rankings reflect cumulative totals, not annualized figures. Data source: CMS Open Payments, accessed via doctransparency.com database.
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