Andrew Obrien, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Columbus, OHNPI 1336660034
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $5,000 of the $8,046 with a category attached, or 62.1%. Acumed LLC accounts for 62.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $5,279 and has fallen 96.4% since, to $190 in 2025.
Across 25 payments — averaging $321.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$5K
- Trimed, Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$308
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$174
- Johnson & Johnson$144
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$120
- plus $265 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$5,00062%
- Travel & lodging$93512%
- Food & beverage$1,80322%
- Education$3084%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $5,000 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 12 | $2,035 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $308 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 2 | $174 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $144 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $119 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $72 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $41 |
| COSA Medical, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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$1,053
- NA$289
- LCP$144
- VA-LCP$144
- XIAFLEX$120
- No Related Product$119
How this compares
$8,046 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 26 surgery of the hand providers in Ohio.
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 Columbus
- Ryan SchmuckerColumbus$18K
- John BaileyColumbus$18K
- Arminder KauraColumbus$14K
- Wen XuColumbus$13K
- Ronald BrownColumbus$1K
- Desmond StutzmanColumbus$807
- Kyle CheplaCleveland$163K
- Joseph KhouriBeachwood$137K
- Eric JiangLiberty Township$17K
- Haiqiao JiaoAkron$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.