Anshul Agarwala, MD
Hand Surgery · Greensboro, NCNPI 1679954812
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (48.3%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 50.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $13,006 and has fallen 90.5% since, to $1,240 in 2025.
Across 93 payments — averaging $222.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$10K
- Wardlow Enterprises$2K
- Trimed, Inc.$2K
- Novus Surgical Solutions LLC$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Axogen$1000
- plus $3K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1701%
- Grants$10,00048%
- Travel & lodging$2,63513%
- Food & beverage$4,76623%
- Education$3,03115%
- Entertainment$1151%
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 | 5 | $10,462 |
| Wardlow Enterprises | 2 | $2,091 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 5 | $1,612 |
| Novus Surgical Solutions LLC | 2 | $1,243 |
| Stryker | 20 | $1,069 |
| Axogen | 9 | $1,000 |
| Acumed LLC | 8 | $638 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $631 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $540 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 5 | $439 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $229 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $199 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $189 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Piedmont Plus Innovation | 1 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $25 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
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$1,080
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$857
- INTEGRA$369
- ACUMED$279
- VARIAX$258
- Geminus$235
- Align$235
- IJS$235
- Implate$235
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$146
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$146
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$146
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$146
- Acu-Loc Wrist Plating System$145
- Hand Fracture System$145
- Alps Hand$143
- XIAFLEX$137
- T2$136
- ADAPT$128
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$123
How this compares
$20,717 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 79 hand surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 | 33 | $192 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Greensboro
- Charles BenfieldGreensboro$6K
- Gary KuzmaGreensboro$2K
- James SpearsGreensboro$475
- Kevin KuzmaGreensboro$434
- Matthew WeingoldGreensboro$365
- Christpher KliftoDurham$575K
- Raymond GastonCharlotte$505K
- Ryan GarciaCharlotte$381K
- Richard MooreWilmington$177K
- Erica TaylorRaleigh$97K
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.