Arnold-Peter Weiss, MD
Hand Surgery · Providence, RINPI 1164470597
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $492,520 of the $568,422 with a category attached, or 86.6%. Anika Therapeutics, Inc. accounts for 64.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 104 payments — averaging $5465.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$369K
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$123K
- Medartis Inc.$77K
- Axogen$119
Across 2 payments — averaging $22,250 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Sonex Health, Inc.$45K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$492,52087%
- Consulting fees$50,1259%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,1002%
- Travel & lodging$12,7912%
- Food & beverage$8860%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 70 | $369,049 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 24 | $122,598 |
| Medartis Inc. | 9 | $76,656 |
| Axogen | 1 | $119 |
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.
- WRIST RESURFACING$144,604
- WristMotion Wrist Hemiarthroplasty System$90,596
- SpeedSpiral CMC System$90,328
- SpeedSpiral$83,870
- APTUS$76,584
- Speed spiral$64,455
- WristMotion$38,380
- UniCAP Resurfacing System$33,746
- HemiCAP Wrist$18,945
- OVOMotion$6,600
- TACTOSET$4,535
- HemiCAP Shoulder$360
- HemiCAP$152
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$119
How this compares
Too few hand surgery providers in Rhode Islandto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 142 | $471 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Providence
- Edward AkelmanProvidence$24K
- Anthony DeluiseProvidence$7K
- Julia KatarincicProvidence$2K
- Eric WalshProvidence$565
- Joseph IzziProvidence$149
- Joseph GilEast Providence$7K
- Travis BloodWarwick$6K
- Matthew AkelmanCranston$5K
- Andrew MatsonWarwick$4K
- Manuel DasilvaE Greenwich$429
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.