Has Darin Awaya, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $445,121 in general payments to Darin Awaya, MD across 192 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Darin Awaya, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Darin Awaya, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Darin Awaya, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Honolulu, HINPI 1477544633

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $429,239 of the $445,121 with a category attached, or 96.4%. Hyhte Holdings Inc. accounts for 96.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $113,069, more than ten times the $9,307 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in HI 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.

$445,121in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 192 payments — averaging $2318.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Hyhte Holdings Inc.$429K
Globus Medical$7K
Zimmer Biomet$6K
Amgen$2K
Medtronic$1K
Zimvie Inc.$378
plus $177 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$429,23996%
Travel & lodging$8,5522%
Food & beverage$7,3312%

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
Hyhte Holdings Inc.	7	$429,239
Globus Medical	27	$6,984
Zimmer Biomet	57	$5,765
Amgen	50	$1,551
Medtronic(2 entities)	40	$1,028
Zimvie Inc.	7	$378
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$125
Radius Health, Inc.	2	$33
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$20

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

$445,121 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 83 orthopaedic surgery providers in Hawaii.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$144,195

Medicare patients

385

Services billed

832

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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	113	$635
Gabapentin	32	$470
Celecoxib	20	$309
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	34	$227
Methylprednisolone	23	$214
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	37	$169
Meloxicam	15	$147
Pregabalin	18	$116
Tramadol Hcl	27	$90
Cephalexin	22	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Kanu OkikeHonolulu$47K
Brian ManninoHonolulu$43K
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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.

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