Andrew Baron, MD
Hand Surgery · Detroit, MINPI 1932519162
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $10,000 of the $14,562 with a category attached, or 68.7%. Arthrex accounts for 75.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,119 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $39 in 2025.
Across 34 payments — averaging $428.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$11K
- Pinnacle, Inc$3K
- Acumed LLC$406
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$162
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$159
- Trice Medical, Inc.$50
- plus $107 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$500%
- Grants$10,00069%
- Travel & lodging$1,85813%
- Food & beverage$1,45510%
- Education$1,2008%
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 | 9 | $10,925 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 12 | $2,753 |
| Acumed LLC | 6 | $406 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 2 | $162 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $159 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Axogen | 1 | $39 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 1 | $30 |
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.
How this compares
$14,562 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 55 hand surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 11 | $184 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 39 | $128 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 46 | $61 |
| Methocarbamol | 12 | $46 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $37 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Detroit
- Charles DayDetroit$12K
- Elizabeth KingDetroit$6K
- John LienYpsilanti$56K
- Jeffrey LawtonAnn Arbor$46K
- Randy LovellGrand Rapids$40K
- Hussein HamidSouthfield$33K
- Alexander KelsheimerHolland$30K
- Janelle GreeneYpsilanti$20K
- Emily TanPort Huron$15K
- Jourdan GardWarren$14K
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.