Gary Blum, MD
Hand Surgery · Honolulu, HINPI 1912102500
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,940 of the $3,054 with a category attached, or 63.5%. Arthrex accounts for 70.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,393 and has fallen 95.6% since, to $61 in 2023.
Across 36 payments — averaging $84.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Impactortho, Inc.$390
- Sportstek Medical, Inc$156
- Bioventus LLC$145
- Medacta USA, Inc.$131
- Elevate Surgical Co$61
- plus $17 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,11436%
- Food & beverage$1,94064%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 22 | $2,154 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 3 | $390 |
| Sportstek Medical, Inc | 2 | $156 |
| Bioventus LLC | 6 | $145 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Elevate Surgical Co | 1 | $61 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- SHOULDER IMPLANTS FIBERTAK KNOTLESS$146
- EFFICIENCY$131
- BIOLOGICS CONSUMABLES BONE REPAIR IOBP$120
How this compares
Too few hand surgery providers in Hawaiito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naproxen | 54 | $358 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Honolulu
- Aimee PerreiraHonolulu$3K
- Robert AtkinsonHonolulu$750
- Robert ShinHonolulu$389
- Daniel SingerHonolulu$157
- David MathewsHonolulu$54
- Ryan BickleyTripler Army Medical Center$7K
- Sara SakamotoKailua$346
- Derek IpsenTripler Amc$130
- Kimberley WirsingWailuku$43
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.