Alejandro Castano
Denville, NJ. NPI 1689129942. Periodontics.
What was reported, 2019–2025
- $3.6 thousand
- General payments
- $3,555
- 27 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.
- $0
- Research payments
- Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this doctor named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.
- $0
- Ownership and investment
- The value of a stake this doctor or an immediate family member held.
- 0
- Disputed
- This doctor has contested none of the payments reported about them.
What the payments were
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| Nature of payment | Amount |
|---|---|
| Long term medical supply or device loan | $1,990 |
| Food and Beverage | $742 |
| Gift | $436 |
| Education | $300 |
| Entertainment | $87 |
Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.
By program year
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| Program year | General | Research |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $16 | $0 |
| 2024 | $2,309 | $0 |
| 2023 | $36 | $0 |
| 2022 | $416 | $0 |
| 2021 | $409 | $0 |
| 2019 | $369 | $0 |
CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.
CMS’s file covers 2019–2025. It holds no payments to Alejandro Castano in 2020.
The record
- National Provider Identifier
- 1689129942
- The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.
- Specialty
- Periodontics
- Dental Providers, in CMS's taxonomy.
- Licensed in
- NJ
- The state of the license CMS lists first.
- Recipient type
- Covered Recipient Physician
- How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.
Medicare prescribing
What this provider billed to Medicare Part D in 2024, as CMS published it. Medicare Part D only: what they prescribed outside it is not here.
- 273
- Claims
- Prescriptions and refills billed to Part D, as CMS counts them.
- $1,101
- Total drug cost
- What Part D, the plan and the patient paid together. Not what this provider was paid — they are paid nothing out of it.
- 112
- Beneficiaries
- People with at least one prescription from this provider.
- 0
- Brand-name claims
- Of the claims above, those for a brand-name drug.
- 245
- Generic claims
- Of the claims above, those for a generic.
- not reported
- Opioid claims
- Claims for an opioid. CMS published no figure for this provider, and there is no suppression marker on this measure — so this is an absent figure rather than a withheld one, and it is not a zero.
- 122
- Antibiotic claims
- Claims for an antibiotic.
- Dentist
- Prescriber type
- As CMS classifies this prescriber. Credentials: DDS.
A blank is not a zero. CMS withholds a value between 1 and 10, and withholds the next lowest alongside it so the first cannot be worked out by subtraction — so a withheld figure is not even evidence that the number was small. Rows for ten or fewer claims are removed from the file altogether, which is why the parts of a total can be withheld while the total is published.
Elsewhere
- Payments to doctors in New Jersey — what was reported across the state this doctor practises in.
- What drug and device companies pay doctors — the national picture these figures are part of.
- This record at CMS — the publisher’s own page for this profile.
- The NPI registry — who this identifier belongs to, at CMS.
Data retrieved
Sources
- Open Payments — payments grouped by physician — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026