Kathryn Bentley, MD
Hand Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1598023632
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 29.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,106 and has fallen 79.5% since, to $431 in 2025.
Across 60 payments — averaging $60.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$1K
- Prime Surgical, LLC$900
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$374
- Kerecis Limited$212
- Axogen$159
- Johnson & Johnson$139
- plus $791 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,47240%
- Food & beverage$2,17460%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 16 | $1,070 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 6 | $900 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 2 | $374 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $212 |
| Axogen | 1 | $159 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $139 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $134 |
| Stryker | 1 | $81 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $57 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $48 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| ERMI LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Abbott | 2 | $36 |
| Amgen | 2 | $32 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, 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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$790
- Geminus$353
- Align$353
- IJS$353
- Implate$353
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$197
- Vivigen MIS Delivery System$103
How this compares
$3,645 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 29 hand surgery providers in Alabama.
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 | 25 | $456 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 109 | $400 |
| Methylprednisolone | 28 | $188 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 20 | $83 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $34 |
| Prednisone | 14 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Birmingham
- Kathleen McKeonBirmingham$151K
- Christopher BeaumontBirmingham$18K
- Karlee LoftinBirmingham$12K
- Ekkehard BonatzBirmingham$5K
- Joseph IngramBirmingham$4K
- Erin RansomBirmingham$1K
- Hussein TurkiMontgomery$35K
- Thomas SellersMontgomery$10K
- Jared BurkettMobile$8K
- Allison HunterDaphne$8K
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.