Bruce Steinberg, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1174527857
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.0% of the total across 21 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $147 and has fallen 50.8% since, to $72 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery of the hand clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $3,069.
Across 21 payments — averaging $22.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$100
- Johnson & Johnson$86
- Smith+Nephew$84
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$61
- In2bones USA, LLC$33
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$30
- plus $88 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$45795%
- Education$245%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 4 | $100 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $86 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $84 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $61 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Axogen | 1 | $23 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$481 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 60 surgery of the hand providers in Florida.
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 | 160 | $1,513 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 52 | $994 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 130 | $397 |
| Meloxicam | 173 | $278 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 39 | $277 |
| Methylprednisolone | 23 | $190 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 52 | $168 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $135 |
| Alprazolam | 11 | $6 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Jacksonville
- Garry KitayJacksonville$11K
- Lauren DuttonJacksonville$8K
- Abdelghaffar SalousJacksonville$3K
- Antonio ForteJacksonville$2K
- Thomas WrightGainesville$4.1M
- David ShenassaPlantation$109K
- Antonio GayosoSt Petersburg$65K
- Robert GrahamJacksonville Beach$62K
- David FriedmanWeston$42K
- Karan DesaiWinter Garden$39K
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.