Alexander Shin, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Rochester, MNNPI 1609849298
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 436 payments — averaging $2344.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$983K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$20K
- Aptis Medical, LLC$12K
- Hologic Inc$2K
- Axogen$1K
- Medartis Inc.$835
- plus $3K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$137,66613%
- Consulting fees$654,81764%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5770%
- Travel & lodging$202,49820%
- Food & beverage$25,3222%
- Education$9820%
- Entertainment$5560%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 287 | $982,680 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 89 | $20,460 |
| Aptis Medical, LLC | 12 | $12,379 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $2,000 |
| Axogen | 16 | $1,376 |
| Medartis Inc. | 7 | $835 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $696 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 4 | $592 |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | 6 | $411 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 3 | $255 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $229 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $178 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 1 | $158 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $89 |
| Integrum Inc. | 1 | $80 |
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.
- Tools - WFS$274,287
- Tools - AFS$147,197
- Aptis DRUJ$11,878
- CODMAN CERTAS$11,005
- SURGIMEND$11,005
- TENOGLIDE$5,017
- INTEGRA$2,488
- PRIMATRIX$1,284
- NEURAGEN$1,246
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,157
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$939
- Tools - WS3$935
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$863
- APTUS$785
- TENOGLIDE TENDON PROTECTOR SHEET$533
- NEURAGEN NERVE GUIDE$533
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$515
- IDRT$515
- FLOWABLE$515
- Scheker DRUJ$500
How this compares
$1,022,417 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 21 surgery of the hand providers in Minnesota.
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.
Other surgery of the hand in Rochester
- Sanjeev KakarRochester$2.1M
- Peter RheeRochester$88K
- Sami TuffahaRochester$52K
- Marco RizzoRochester$48K
- Lauren TaglieroRochester$6K
- Richard BergerRochester$4K
- Allen BishopRochester$4K
- Ashley TitanRochester$3K
- Yoshiko ToyodaRochester$3K
- Matthew FahrenkopfRochester$3K
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.