Luis Scheker
Surgery of the Hand · Louisville, KYNPI 1407840770
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — ownership interests (55.3%), royalties or licence payments and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Aptis Medical, LLC accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery of the hand clinicians in KY 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 38 payments — averaging $153,743 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aptis Medical, LLC$5.8M
- Synthes GmbH$750
- Trimed, Inc.$744
Across 10 payments — averaging $496,461 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Aptis Medical, LLC$5M
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,854,24032%
- Consulting fees$535,4209%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7500%
- Travel & lodging$165,7383%
- Food & beverage$29,4301%
- Gifts$23,2390%
- Ownership interest$3,233,40055%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aptis Medical, LLC | 29 | $5,840,723 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $750 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 7 | $744 |
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.
- Aptis DRUJ$3,786,000
- Scheker DRUJ$1,193,817
- Tools - WFS$644
How this compares
$5,842,217 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 36 surgery of the hand providers in Kentucky.
Other surgery of the hand in Louisville
- Michael NicosonLouisville$18K
- Claudiu MuresanLouisville$11K
- Wai Jing Geraldine KongLouisville$10K
- Huey Yuan TienLouisville$8K
- Israel TorresLouisville$5K
- Mohammed ElnoorLouisville$5K
- Kao FangLouisville$5K
- Misbah Al HanbaliLouisville$4K
- Russell ShatfordLouisville$4K
- Chern Yang Harmony TanLouisville$4K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.