Amy Birnbaum
Surgery of the Hand · New York, NYNPI 1427555846
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 41.9% of the total.
Across 51 payments — averaging $104.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Trimed, Inc.$756
- Suvon Surgical LLC$564
- Acumed LLC$373
- Stryker$337
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$235
- plus $816 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,13840%
- Food & beverage$2,98256%
- Education$1864%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 24 | $2,226 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 7 | $756 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 4 | $564 |
| Acumed LLC | 5 | $373 |
| Stryker | 3 | $337 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $235 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $186 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $178 |
| Axogen | 1 | $163 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $149 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $140 |
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$756
- ACUMED$473
- XIAFLEX$367
- Novosorb BTM$178
- CONEXTIONS TR TENDON REPAIR SYSTEM-IMPLANT MECHANISM$159
- INnate Implant$142
- InFrame Implant$142
- APTUS$140
- NA$113
How this compares
$5,306 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 40 surgery of the hand providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in New York
- Melvin RosenwasserNew York$613K
- Karan DuaNew York$49K
- Sheel SharmaNew York$9K
- Robert StrauchNew York$3K
- Abidemi AdenikinjuNew York$3K
- Rajendra KadiyalaNew York$2K
- David ChiuNew York$2K
- Glenn BeckerNew York$868
- Ignatius RogerNew York$601
- Steven FernNew York$516
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.