Has Aaron Small, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,559 in general payments to Aaron Small, MD across 137 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Aaron Small, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Aaron Small, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Aaron Small, MD

Gastroenterology · Aiea, HINPI 1407015399

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 78.8% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,414 and has fallen 85.3% since, to $795 in 2025. Among gastroenterology clinicians in HI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$19,559in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 137 payments — averaging $142.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$15K
Olympus America Inc.$941
Conmed Corporation$696
AbbVie$577
Omega Medical Imaging, LLC$560
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$508
plus $861 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$9,47048%
Travel & lodging$4,03821%
Food & beverage$6,05031%

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
Boston Scientific	47	$15,415
Olympus America Inc.	11	$941
Conmed Corporation	8	$696
AbbVie(2 entities)	38	$577
Omega Medical Imaging, LLC	3	$560
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	4	$508
Ambu Inc.	2	$161
Apollo Endosurgery US Inc	1	$131
Cook Medical LLC	1	$120
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	6	$120
Bristol Myers Squibb	6	$110
Sanofi	4	$93
Medtronic	2	$50
AstraZeneca	1	$27
Ardelyx, Inc.	1	$18
Pfizer	1	$17
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., 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.

SPYGLASS$7,430
AXIOS$2,160
ORISE$1,937
RESOLUTION CLIP$562
GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$519
OER-PRO$457
Olympus Capital Accessories$457
Olympus Endoscopic Ultrasound Scopes$457
OER Pro Accessories$457
CONMED BILIARY$280
EndoClot PHS$260
OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$240
MicroKnife XL$134
Single Use Biliary Stent V$128
ECHOTIP INSIGHT$120
CONMED HEMOSTASIS$115
Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U200H$114
SINGLE USE GRASPING FORCEPS$114
EVIS EXERA lll COLONOVIDEOSCOPE$104
EVIS EUS ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND CENTER$104

How this compares

$19,559 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 71 gastroenterology providers in Hawaii.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$55,885

Medicare patients

138

Services billed

371

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	152	$2,136
Omeprazole	52	$1,307
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	29	$434
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	24	$82
Levofloxacin	22	$79

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gastroenterology in Aiea

Yousif ArahimAiea$11K
Robert WongAiea$2K
Darrell LeeAiea$1K
Tesu LinAiea$771
Naoky TsaiKailua$587K
Russell YangHonolulu$244K
Roland TerHonolulu$37K
Robert JaoKailua$28K
Shelini SooklalWailuku$21K
Daniel ChanEwa Beach$17K

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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.

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