Doctor of Osteopathy Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

John Merlino

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Toms River, NJ Doctor of Osteopathy

NPI 1811013246 CMS profile 355182

780 Route 37 W, Suite 120, Toms River, NJ 08755

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General payments

$15,131

257 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, John Merlino of Toms River, NJ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $15,131 across 257 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 44th percentile of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $6,515 65
2024 General $1,511 38
2023 General $1,114 28
2022 General $706 25
2021 General $1,653 28
2020 General $1,074 28
2019 General $2,559 45

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • John Merlino
  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median
  • Middle half of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to John Merlino were reported at $6,515. Among 3,064 Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology profiles paid that year, the median was $2,462 and the middle half received between $733 and $7,710.

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Year John Merlino Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,559 $2,361 $585–$8,260 $163
2020 $1,074 $993 $247–$4,351 $114
2021 $1,653 $1,185 $326–$4,739 $132
2022 $706 $2,073 $554–$6,789 $149
2023 $1,114 $2,568 $759–$8,159 $160
2024 $1,511 $2,557 $703–$7,403 $164
2025 $6,515 $2,462 $733–$7,710 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $5,055 46 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $4,828 75 payments
  3. Abbott Laboratories $2,996 47 payments
  4. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $783 15 payments
  5. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $244 17 payments
  6. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $198 9 payments
  7. Baxter Healthcare $169 6 payments
  8. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $101 6 payments
  9. Biotronik Inc. $100 2 payments
  10. Pfizer Inc. $98 7 payments
  11. Other $560 27 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $10,104 238 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $4,953 18 payments
  3. Education $74 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AVEIR Structural Heart $1,656 11 payments
  2. General Therapies $1,128 3 payments
  3. AVEIR Cardiac Rhythm Management $895 18 payments
  4. Micra Pacemakers $842 18 payments
  5. ACCOLADE Brady $668 13 payments
  6. ACCOLADE Pain Management $552 7 payments
  7. AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN $517 2 payments
  8. ACCOLADE SR $450 9 payments
  9. EMBLEM $417 2 payments
  10. MICRA Pacemakers $338 6 payments
  11. Other $4,895 167 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 24 drugs

Part D claims

1,248

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: 1,090

Drug cost

$341,690

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: $354,841

Branded share of claims

34.4%

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: 38.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 186 $246,543
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 46 $58,472
Multaq Dronedarone Hcl Brand 13 $13,454
Flecainide Acetate Generic 97 $4,912
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd) Diltiazem Hcl Brand 118 $3,594
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 200 $3,173
Dofetilide Generic 11 $2,320
Midodrine Hcl Generic 22 $1,533
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 94 $1,371
Sotalol Sotalol Hcl Brand 37 $902

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 24 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,573 Part D prescribers listed as Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 67 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$389,260

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

1,613

Average age 78

Services billed

6,901

816 women, 797 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 63%
Arthritis 59%
Atrial fibrillation 55%
Diabetes 51%
Heart failure 47%
Chronic kidney disease 41%
COPD 38%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

3 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
XARELTO
  • Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $52
$52 46 —
ELIQUIS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $30
$30 186 —
VYNDAQEL
  • PFIZER INC. $17
$17 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

257 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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