Keegan Cole, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Albany, NYNPI 1497117568
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (48.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 67.9% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $12,731 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $43 in 2025.
Across 77 payments — averaging $265.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$14K
- Acumed LLC$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$857
- Stryker$528
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$359
- Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc.$243
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$10,00049%
- Travel & lodging$3,14315%
- Food & beverage$4,91324%
- Education$2,40012%
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 | 17 | $13,897 |
| Acumed LLC | 21 | $3,272 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $857 |
| Stryker | 4 | $528 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 6 | $359 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 2 | $243 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $236 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $135 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $133 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $123 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 2 | $107 |
| Axogen | 1 | $86 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Hand Fracture System$2,212
- Osteotomy System$2,190
- Acu-Loc Wrist Plating System$1,274
- Acutrak Headless Compression Screw System$1,072
- Arc Wrist Tower$1,072
- Total Wrist Fusion Plating System$1,072
- MODULAR HAND SYSTEM$877
- ACUMED$682
- INnate Implant$473
- INTEGRA$369
- Geminus$247
- Align$247
- IJS$247
- Implate$247
- InFrame Implant$236
- ArrowPhix System$236
- ArcPhix System$236
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$192
- DALL-MILES$175
- VARIAX$172
How this compares
$20,456 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.
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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $127 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 11 | $97 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Albany
- Andrew RosenbaumAlbany$467K
- Anthony RomeoNew York$26.8M
- Lawrence LenkeNew York$26.8M
- Edwin SuNew York$13.2M
- William RicciNew York$11.6M
- Steven HaasNew York$11.3M
- Giles ScuderiNew York$10.7M
- Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
- Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
- Bradford ParsonsNew York$9.4M
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.