Benjamin Plucknette, DO
Surgery of the Hand · Rochester, NYNPI 1790050425
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $82,277 of the $122,624 with a category attached, or 67.1%. Skeletal Dynamics Inc accounts for 87.7% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $43,983, 5.3 times the $8,280 reported in 2019. Among surgery of the hand clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 142 payments — averaging $863.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$108K
- Trimed, Inc.$5K
- Medartis Inc.$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Medinc Of Texas$722
- Axogen$648
- plus $4K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,40812%
- Travel & lodging$16,63514%
- Food & beverage$9,1237%
- Education$82,27767%
- Other$1810%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 83 | $107,514 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 8 | $4,653 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $3,180 |
| Stryker | 13 | $1,933 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 2 | $722 |
| Axogen | 5 | $648 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 1 | $622 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $569 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 5 | $432 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $268 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $243 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $239 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $225 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 2 | $223 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $181 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $180 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $172 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $97 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $82 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $69 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $55 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $51 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 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.
- Geminus$105,688
- Align$105,688
- IJS$105,688
- Implate$105,688
- TOUCH$3,180
- REUNION$1,309
- WristMotion$471
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$379
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$379
- NA$225
- SMR$223
- INTEGRA$181
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$149
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$126
- Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate System$125
- TRAUMA$123
- Hand Fracture System$120
- Midshaft Forearm Plating System$120
- XIAFLEX$119
- PRIME SERIES$118
How this compares
$122,624 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 40 surgery of the hand providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 27 | $256 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 29 | $76 |
| Naproxen | 27 | $49 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $15 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Rochester
- Jeffrey FinkRochester$1K
- Melvin RosenwasserNew York$613K
- Karan DuaNew York$49K
- Mark EpsteinHauppauge$34K
- Amnon SadehForest Hills$12K
- Sheel SharmaNew York$9K
- Benny SetoVestal$8K
- Rachel ThibodeauBrooklyn$7K
- Amy BirnbaumNew York$5K
- Nikhil AgrawalBrooklyn$5K
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.