Brent Pickrell, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Los Angeles, CANPI 1558757245
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (40.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 72.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,276 and has fallen 90.4% since, to $218 in 2025.
Across 18 payments — averaging $163.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Stryker$483
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$149
- Kairos Surgical Inc$141
- Axogen$19
- Trice Medical, Inc.$14
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$91931%
- Food & beverage$82228%
- Education$1,20041%
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 | $2,135 |
| Stryker | 8 | $483 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $149 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 2 | $141 |
| Axogen | 1 | $19 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
How this compares
$2,941 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 76 surgery of the hand providers in California.
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 Los Angeles
- Sara GuerraLos Angeles$8K
- Menyoli MalafaLos Angeles$5K
- Gregory TsushimaLos Angeles$4K
- Dong-Joon LeeLos Angeles$1K
- Bill KimLos Angeles$459
- Bauback SafaSan Francisco$172K
- Emily Perezla Mirada$56K
- Joshua GluckVentura$26K
- Howard SutkinLos Gatos$22K
- Aaron BergerOakland$14K
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.