Charles Goldfarb, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Saint Louis, MONPI 1871511352
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (49.5%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Acumed LLC accounts for 64.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery of the hand clinicians in MO 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 111 payments — averaging $1087.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$78K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$20K
- Arthrex$20K
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$49,77541%
- Speaking & faculty fees$59,75550%
- Travel & lodging$7,1066%
- Food & beverage$1,5331%
- Education$2,5002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 80 | $78,041 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 6 | $20,475 |
| Arthrex | 18 | $19,533 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 7 | $2,621 |
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.
- ACUMED$70,381
- Checkpoint Stimulators$20,475
- Acu-Loc Wrist Plating System$18,889
- Acutrak Headless Compression Screw System$18,889
- Hand Fracture System$17,181
- Total Wrist Fusion Plating System$11,616
- Osteotomy System$11,616
- Elbow Plating System$2,257
- ArcPhix System$513
- INnate Implant$513
- InFrame Implant$513
How this compares
$120,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 30 surgery of the hand providers in Missouri.
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 | 24 | $100 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Saint Louis
- Jason StrelzowSaint Louis$161K
- Christopher DySaint Louis$106K
- David BroganSaint Louis$55K
- Sarah RidenourSaint Louis$34K
- Vikas DhawanSaint Louis$16K
- Marie MorrisSaint Louis$15K
- Nicholas RobbinsSaint Louis$15K
- Pradeep AttaluriSaint Louis$10K
- Martin BoyerSaint Louis$3K
- Jana DenglerSaint Louis$2K
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.