Has Grzegorz Kwiecien, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,612 in general payments to Grzegorz Kwiecien, MD across 43 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 Grzegorz Kwiecien, 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 Grzegorz Kwiecien, 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.

Grzegorz Kwiecien, MD

Surgery of the Hand · Cleveland, OHNPI 1629463328

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.0%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.7%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,758 and has fallen 94.2% since, to $161 in 2025.

$5,612in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $130.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1K
Axogen$887
Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$887
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$668
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$649
Aptis Medical, LLC$234
plus $956 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$93217%
Food & beverage$2,97653%
Education$1,70430%

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
AbbVie	8	$1,331
Axogen	9	$887
Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.	1	$887
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	6	$668
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$649
Aptis Medical, LLC	1	$234
Stryker	2	$206
Exsomed Corporation	1	$178
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	1	$131
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$124
Smith+Nephew	2	$111
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$68
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	1	$50
Hydrocision, Inc.	2	$45
Solventum Corporation	1	$17
Zimmer Biomet	1	$13
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$13

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.

ALLODERM$1,092
STRATTICE$1,092
AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$678
INnate Implant$356
INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$291
INTEGRA$289
Aptis DRUJ$234
InFrame Implant$178
ArrowPhix System$178
ArcPhix System$178
INTEGRA DUO$168
INTEGRA PADGETT DERMATOMES$168
RADIUS$162
INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$147
INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$147
PRIMATRIX$147
INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$147
OMNIGRAFT$145
SURGIMEND$145
TENOGLIDE$143

How this compares

$5,612 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 26 surgery of the hand providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$64,258

Medicare patients

159

Services billed

428

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
Meloxicam	78	$295
Cefadroxil	27	$186
Doxycycline Hyclate	12	$130
Oxycodone Hcl	39	$116
Methylprednisolone	18	$113
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	18	$45
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	12	$36

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery of the hand in Cleveland

Kyle CheplaCleveland$163K
Bram KaufmanCleveland$816
Joseph KhouriBeachwood$137K
Ryan SchmuckerColumbus$18K
John BaileyColumbus$18K
Eric JiangLiberty Township$17K
Arminder KauraColumbus$14K
Wen XuColumbus$13K
Haiqiao JiaoAkron$11K
Andrew ObrienColumbus$8K

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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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