Jeffrey Gelfand, MD
Hand Surgery · Annapolis, MDNPI 1790787851
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,431 of the $1,890 with a category attached, or 75.7%. Medartis Inc. accounts for 75.7% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $972 and has fallen 91.9% since, to $79 in 2025.
Across 9 payments — averaging $209.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medartis Inc.$1K
- Globus Medical$277
- Smith+Nephew$124
- Zimmer Biomet$41
- Amgen$18
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,43176%
- Food & beverage$45924%
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. | 2 | $1,431 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 2 | $277 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $124 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $41 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
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.
How this compares
$1,890 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 54 hand surgery providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 11 | $122 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $87 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Annapolis
- Thomas DennisAnnapolis$3K
- Christopher JonesAnnapolis$2K
- Alexander ShushanAnnapolis$2K
- Garth SmithAnnapolis$235
- Khurram PervaizCatonsville$26K
- Sunjay BerdiaRockville$24K
- Duc NguyenBaltimore$18K
- Karly LorbeerSilver Spring$13K
- Christopher ForthmanLutherville$12K
- Harrison SolomonChevy Chase$10K
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.