James Dieterich, MD
Hand Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1801327788
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (45.3%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.3%.
Across 51 payments — averaging $105.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$1K
- Arthrex$990
- Axogen$813
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$810
- Acumed LLC$266
- Medwest Associates$247
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,74032%
- Food & beverage$2,43645%
- Education$1,20022%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Arthrex | 14 | $990 |
| Axogen | 8 | $813 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 5 | $810 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $266 |
| Medwest Associates | 3 | $247 |
| Stryker | 2 | $216 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 3 | $183 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $176 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $107 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $102 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $95 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen | 1 | $27 |
| Gilead | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Geminus$684
- Align$684
- IJS$684
- Implate$684
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$558
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$558
- AXOGUARD$493
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$311
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$311
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$311
- VersaWrap$176
- INnate Implant$130
- CONEXTIONS TR TENDON REPAIR SYSTEM-IMPLANT MECHANISM$129
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$107
- TENOGLIDE$102
How this compares
$5,376 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 121 hand surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 23 | $93 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Chicago
- Mark CohenChicago$78K
- Jeffrey StepanChicago$71K
- Eric PerezChicago$42K
- John FernandezChicago$29K
- Peter OstergaardChicago$15K
- Daniel HongChicago$12K
- Grigory GershkovichChicago$8K
- Kevin ChenChicago$6K
- Cristina GraphiaChicago$4K
- William VitelloChicago$3K
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.