Duc Nguyen, MD
Hand Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1528453693
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $12,083 of the $18,380 with a category attached, or 65.7%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Skeletal Dynamics Inc at 56.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,341, 2.1 times the $5,000 reported in 2020. Among hand surgery clinicians in MD 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 17 payments — averaging $1081.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$10K
- Arthrex$5K
- Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$1K
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$1K
- AstraZeneca$303
- Stryker$96
- plus $228 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$5,00027%
- Travel & lodging$7414%
- Food & beverage$5553%
- Education$12,08366%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 4 | $10,341 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $5,000 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 2 | $1,212 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $303 |
| Stryker | 1 | $96 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $93 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $60 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $48 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $27 |
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
$18,380 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 54 hand surgery providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 26 | $1,095 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 68 | $418 |
| Meloxicam | 46 | $273 |
| Ibuprofen | 64 | $204 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 76 | $119 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Baltimore
- Jason SteinBaltimore$5K
- George NanosBaltimore$4K
- Beatrice GrasuBaltimore$4K
- Kenneth MeansBaltimore$897
- Mark DeitchBaltimore$720
- Eric SingerBaltimore$316
- Steven FriedmanBaltimore$247
- Dawn LaporteBaltimore$239
- Khurram PervaizCatonsville$26K
- Sunjay BerdiaRockville$24K
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.