Kevin Malone, MD
Hand Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1881794691
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $25,550 of the $39,264 with a category attached, or 65.1%. Synthes GmbH accounts for 94.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,183, 2.4 times the $3,807 reported in 2019.
Across 94 payments — averaging $417.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Synthes GmbH$37K
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$790
- Stryker$419
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$295
- Axogen$255
- Tulavi Therapeutics, Inc.$196
- plus $367 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,2508%
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,55065%
- Travel & lodging$7,39219%
- Food & beverage$2,2526%
- Education$8202%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Synthes GmbH | 58 | $36,944 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $790 |
| Stryker | 15 | $419 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 3 | $295 |
| Axogen | 2 | $255 |
| Tulavi Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $196 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $176 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $95 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $11 |
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
$39,264 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 88 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 99 | $473 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 65 | $282 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $90 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $69 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Cleveland
- Harry HoyenCleveland$330K
- Joseph StyronCleveland$197K
- Youssra MarjouaCleveland$93K
- Morgan BertschCleveland$18K
- Rebecca SenehiCleveland$9K
- Steven MaschkeCleveland$631
- Mollie ManleyAkron$540K
- H Brent BambergerDayton$100K
- Raymond WurapaGahanna$74K
- Amy SpeeckaertColumbus$61K
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.