Eric Hentzen
Hand Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1245411180
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $8,190 of the $11,365 with a category attached, or 72.1%. Synthes USA Products LLC accounts for 84.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $10,864 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $60 in 2025.
Across 28 payments — averaging $405.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Synthes USA Products LLC$10K
- Impactortho, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$246
- Medartis Inc.$92
- Illuminoss Medical, Inc.$80
- Smith+Nephew$60
- plus $101 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,19072%
- Travel & lodging$1,30812%
- Food & beverage$6676%
- Education$1,20011%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 10 | $9,587 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 6 | $246 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $60 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Elevate Surgical Co | 1 | $14 |
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.
- LCP$8,609
- VA-LCP$8,190
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$155
How this compares
$11,365 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 249 hand surgery providers in California.
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.
Other hand surgery in San Diego
- Michael PomerantzSan Diego$17K
- Gregory AlbertonSan Diego$13K
- Hassan AzimiSan Diego$13K
- Reid AbramsSan Diego$11K
- Steven ShinLos Angeles$2.8M
- Amy LaddStanford$1.4M
- Emilie CheungStanford$1.1M
- Andrew HartmanOceanside$957K
- Nancy LynchSan Mateo$862K
- Jeffrey YaoRedwood City$622K
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.