Heather Williams, MD
Hand Surgery · Indianapolis, INNPI 1003852880
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (49.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,371 and has fallen 84.7% since, to $209 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in IN, where the typical reported total is $2,034.
Across 36 payments — averaging $56.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC$1K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$224
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$148
- Abbott$71
- Johnson & Johnson$60
- Stryker$46
- plus $184 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,00049%
- Travel & lodging$30015%
- Food & beverage$64432%
- Education$904%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC | 2 | $1,300 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 13 | $224 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $148 |
| Abbott | 1 | $71 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $60 |
| Stryker | 2 | $46 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $31 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $27 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 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.
- SMART RELEASE$1,300
How this compares
$2,034 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 60 hand surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 25 | $454 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $100 |
| Allopurinol | 12 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Indianapolis
- Brandon SmetanaIndianapolis$136K
- Jeffrey GreenbergIndianapolis$121K
- Reed HoyerIndianapolis$110K
- Nicholas CrosbyIndianapolis$18K
- Kathryn PeckIndianapolis$11K
- Sameer PuriIndianapolis$11K
- Emily JewellIndianapolis$10K
- Robert LinkIndianapolis$10K
- Gregory MerrellIndianapolis$8K
- Gregory SchmidtIndianapolis$7K
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.