Kenneth Arsham, MD
Plastic Surgery · Warrensville Heights, OHNPI 1841222411
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $9,456 of the $11,791 with a category attached, or 80.2%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 93.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $7,911 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $147 in 2025.
Across 49 payments — averaging $240.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$11K
- KCI USA, Inc.$170
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$146
- Kerecis Limited$142
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$131
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$130
- plus $45 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,45680%
- Travel & lodging$6946%
- Food & beverage$1,64114%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 38 | $11,027 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $170 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $146 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $142 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 2 | $130 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Santyl$9,759
- Oasis$2,571
- REGRANEX$2,504
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$425
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$142
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$142
How this compares
$11,791 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 191 plastic surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist. | 15 | $17,167 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+NephewSantyl | $11,027 | $17,16715 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 191 plastic surgery providers in Ohio.
Other plastic surgery in Warrensville Heights
- Ian ValerioColumbus$1.3M
- Christopher SurekCleveland$1M
- Peter KoltzToledo$336K
- Risal DjohanCleveland$330K
- John WakelinColumbus$215K
- Lawrence KurtzmanCincinnati$126K
- Sonu JainCincinnati$89K
- Brian GastmanCleveland$88K
- Amy MooreColumbus$77K
- Anthony TufaroCleveland$56K
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.