David Tuckman, MD
Hand Surgery · Great Neck, NYNPI 1194740977
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medartis Inc. accounts for 63.6% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $33,031 and has fallen 59.5% since, to $13,386 in 2025. Among hand surgery clinicians in NY 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 166 payments — averaging $578.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medartis Inc.$61K
- Arthrex$32K
- Stryker$547
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$377
- Bioventus LLC$355
- Hitachi Healthcare Americas Corp.$316
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$45,93048%
- Speaking & faculty fees$36,81938%
- Travel & lodging$7,5748%
- Food & beverage$5,4146%
- Entertainment$3160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medartis Inc. | 41 | $61,059 |
| Arthrex | 85 | $32,254 |
| Stryker | 6 | $547 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $377 |
| Bioventus LLC | 7 | $355 |
| Hitachi Healthcare Americas Corp. | 2 | $316 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 3 | $305 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $229 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 3 | $179 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $118 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $60 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$96,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 178 hand surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 48 | $347 |
| Meloxicam | 26 | $64 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $53 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 12 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Great Neck
- Peter SteinGreat Neck$131K
- Andrew GreenbergGreat Neck$86K
- Scott WolfeNy$251K
- Nader PaksimaNew York$171K
- Michael HausmanNew York$128K
- Otis BarronNew York$122K
- Kevin SetterEast Syracuse$118K
- Nathan EverdingSyracuse$98K
- Dan ZlotolowNew York$91K
- Steven KoehlerBronx$64K
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.