Christopher Lincoski, MD
Surgery of the Hand · State College, PANPI 1265494769
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,330 of the $3,182 with a category attached, or 73.2%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Trimed, Inc. at 58.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,911 and has fallen 87.6% since, to $236 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery of the hand clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $3,182.
Across 57 payments — averaging $55.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$2K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$389
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$263
- Endo USA, Inc.$149
- Acumed LLC$135
- Bioventus LLC$103
- plus $286 from 7 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $44,050 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Sonex Health, Inc.$44K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$85227%
- Food & beverage$2,33073%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 4 | $1,857 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 24 | $389 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $263 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 8 | $149 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $135 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $103 |
| Axogen | 3 | $93 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $77 |
| Vertex | 2 | $41 |
| Stryker | 1 | $25 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
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$249
- Align$249
- IJS$249
- Implate$249
- ArcPhix System$100
- INnate Implant$100
- InFrame Implant$100
How this compares
$3,182 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 20 surgery of the hand providers in Pennsylvania.
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 | 24 | $468 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $52 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in State College
- Scott EisenhuthState College$10K
- Joel KlenaDanville$56K
- Robert KangPittsburgh$27K
- Jason YooPittsburgh$19K
- Nathan MillerAllentown$11K
- Alexander SpiessTrafford$7K
- Eugene ParkPhiladelphia$6K
- Dana LavantureSayre$5K
- Debra BournePittsburgh$4K
- George ZavitsanosFort Washington$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.