Adelbert Mencias, MD
Hand Surgery · South Bend, INNPI 1437131489
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $104,995 of the $172,195 with a category attached, or 61.0%. Arthrex accounts for 71.4% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $50,173 and has fallen 60.1% since, to $20,038 in 2025. Among hand surgery clinicians in IN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 287 payments — averaging $599.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$123K
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$34K
- Vertex$8K
- Stryker$3K
- Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC$1K
- Steris Corporation$1K
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,7257%
- Speaking & faculty fees$104,99561%
- Travel & lodging$16,73110%
- Food & beverage$8,1975%
- Education$30,54718%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 161 | $123,018 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 36 | $33,881 |
| Vertex | 9 | $8,080 |
| Stryker | 31 | $2,503 |
| Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC | 3 | $1,260 |
| Steris Corporation | 2 | $1,202 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $338 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 3 | $331 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 9 | $229 |
| Amgen | 5 | $181 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $153 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $137 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $129 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $124 |
| GE HealthCare | 3 | $67 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $39 |
| United Imaging Healthcare North America LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Geminus$33,255
- Align$33,255
- IJS$33,255
- Implate$33,255
- JOURNAVX$7,964
- AMSCO$1,177
- CAPITAL CONSUMABLES CONSUMABLES RF BRF$625
- VARIAX$619
- BioBrace 23mm$277
- TRIATHLON$175
- ACCOLADE$175
- T2$169
- BIO4$149
- LINVATEC ARTHROSCOPY$147
- ALLOGRAFT TISSUE$147
- LINVATEC VIDEO ACCESSORIES$147
- LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$147
- Physio-Stim$136
- MAKO$130
- XIAFLEX$125
How this compares
$172,195 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 60 hand surgery providers in Indiana.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 23 | $200 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in South Bend
- Randolph FerlicSouth Bend$1K
- John MahonSouth Bend$564
- Brandon SmetanaIndianapolis$136K
- Jeffrey GreenbergIndianapolis$121K
- Reed HoyerIndianapolis$110K
- Paul PerryEvansville$44K
- Nicholas CrosbyIndianapolis$18K
- Mathew WalkerGreenwood$17K
- Brett SchiffmanMunster$12K
- Kathryn PeckIndianapolis$11K
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.