Brian Janz, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Catonsville, MDNPI 1003079435
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (58.4%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC accounts for 72.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $12,247 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $123 in 2025.
Across 61 payments — averaging $274.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC$12K
- Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$183
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$67
- Embody, Inc.$27
- plus $166 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,80058%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,80011%
- Travel & lodging$4,14325%
- Food & beverage$1,0306%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC | 6 | $12,221 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 8 | $2,165 |
| Arthrex | 27 | $1,944 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $183 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Embody, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $23 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $23 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $22 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Medartis 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.
- SMART RELEASE$12,221
How this compares
Too few surgery of the hand providers in Marylandto 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 137 | $716 |
| Methylprednisolone | 76 | $462 |
| Ibuprofen | 136 | $407 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 32 | $313 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 58 | $177 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 16 | $167 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 16 | $94 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $51 |
| IbuIbuprofen | 15 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Catonsville
- Aviram GiladiBaltimore$14K
- Brian ChoOwings Mills$2K
- Ean SaberskiBethesda$2K
- Cassandra DriscollBethesda$2K
- Scott LifchezBaltimore$1K
- James HigginsBaltimore$830
- Bruce WolockTowson$544
- James CarltonBaltimore$89
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.