Kyle Chepla, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Cleveland, OHNPI 1073792255
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $111,599 of the $163,284 with a category attached, or 68.3%. Polynovo North America LLC accounts for 81.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $88,725, more than ten times the $411 reported in 2019. Among surgery of the hand clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 122 payments — averaging $1338.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Polynovo North America LLC$133K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$29K
- Acumed LLC$180
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$156
- Baxter Healthcare$145
- AbbVie$142
- plus $276 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$111,59968%
- Speaking & faculty fees$24,40915%
- Travel & lodging$20,60713%
- Food & beverage$6,6694%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Polynovo North America LLC | 92 | $132,969 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 18 | $29,416 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $180 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $156 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $145 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $142 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $89 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Stryker | 1 | $20 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Novosorb BTM$129,850
- Checkpoint Stimulators$29,237
- ACUMED$398
- ARTISS$145
- BOTOX$142
- Tools - WFS$126
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$122
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$122
- AMNIOEXCEL$122
- IDRT$122
- FLOWABLE$122
How this compares
$163,284 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 26 surgery of the hand 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.
Other surgery of the hand in Cleveland
- Grzegorz KwiecienCleveland$6K
- Bram KaufmanCleveland$816
- Joseph KhouriBeachwood$137K
- Ryan SchmuckerColumbus$18K
- John BaileyColumbus$18K
- Eric JiangLiberty Township$17K
- Arminder KauraColumbus$14K
- Wen XuColumbus$13K
- Haiqiao JiaoAkron$11K
- Andrew ObrienColumbus$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.