Benjamin Jacobs, MD
Hand Surgery · Vancouver, WANPI 1467608208
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (34.3%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Trimed, Inc. accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 43 payments — averaging $378.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$16K
- Vertex$125
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$106
- Johnson & Johnson$87
- Acumed LLC$25
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00025%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,00018%
- Travel & lodging$5,58534%
- Food & beverage$3,49921%
- Education$901%
- Entertainment$1191%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 36 | $15,948 |
| Vertex | 1 | $125 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $106 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $87 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $25 |
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$9,747
- JOURNAVX$125
How this compares
$16,292 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 75 hand surgery providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $86 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Vancouver
- Letitia LansingVancouver$3K
- Kaela Frizzell HutchinsonVancouver$2K
- Kirk WongVancouver$2K
- Edward CoaleVancouver$549
- Ryan CaldwellVancouver$311
- Douglas MusgraveVancouver$270
- Thomas TrumbleBellevue$824K
- Jerry HuangSeattle$428K
- Mary ThayerBellevue$51K
- Chelsea BoeSeattle$32K
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.