James Lin, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Spring, TXNPI 1073000923
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (43.4%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medartis Inc. at 51.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,542, 9.9 times the $561 reported in 2019.
Across 30 payments — averaging $320.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medartis Inc.$5K
- CDC Medical LLC$3K
- Acumed LLC$701
- Axogen$373
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$178
- Trimed, Inc.$102
- plus $383 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,17343%
- Food & beverage$1,86719%
- Education$3,58137%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medartis Inc. | 6 | $4,923 |
| CDC Medical LLC | 3 | $2,961 |
| Acumed LLC | 5 | $701 |
| Axogen | 4 | $373 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $178 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $90 |
| Stryker | 2 | $72 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 2 | $64 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Innovation Technologies 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.
- APTUS$4,892
- ACUMED$667
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$281
- TENOGLIDE$123
- Tools - WFS$102
How this compares
$9,621 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 68 surgery of the hand providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Spring
- Desirae McKeeLubbock$59K
- Stuart HilliardDenton$21K
- Harrison KayAustin$19K
- Suresh KoneruSan Antonio$17K
- Dustin RayDallas$15K
- Laurence WeiderDallas$13K
- Andrew ZhangDallas$11K
- James HovisArlington$11K
- Michael JonesSan Antonio$9K
- Gregg VagnerAustin$9K
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.