Mark Baratz
Hand Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1710986609
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $80,578 of the $112,358 with a category attached, or 71.7%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 56.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $27,017 and has fallen 73.1% since, to $7,268 in 2025. Among hand surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 64 payments — averaging $1755.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$64K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$47K
- Trice Medical, Inc.$1K
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$117
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$88
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$77
- plus $82 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$80,57872%
- Consulting fees$7,5107%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,06319%
- Travel & lodging$2,2302%
- Food & beverage$9771%
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 | 31 | $63,564 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 24 | $46,945 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $1,485 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $117 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 4 | $88 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $77 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Stryker | 1 | $40 |
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.
- KATALYST BIPOLAR RADIAL HEAD SYSTEM$52,692
- KATALYST$40,803
- Ascension$17,767
- INTEGRA$16,142
- Ascension Silicone PIP$14,292
- External Fixation System$9,742
- FREEDOM WRIST$9,742
- REVERSE SHOULDER$9,500
- TITAN-SHOULDER$9,500
- Hat-Trick$3,350
- EVOS MINI$2,300
- EVOS$2,300
- NUGRIP CMC IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,725
- Segway blade or mieye camera$1,485
- LOQTEQ$1,189
- First Choice DRUJ System$1,189
- Geminus$117
- Align$117
- IJS$117
- Implate$117
How this compares
$112,358 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 110 hand surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 294 | $881 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $156 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $98 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $83 |
| Amoxicillin | 24 | $16 |
| Prednisone | 14 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Pittsburgh
- Peter TangPittsburgh$85K
- Trent GausePittsburgh$8K
- Bradley PalmerPittsburgh$4K
- Jennifer D'auriaPittsburgh$3K
- Thomas GrahamAllentown$1.4M
- Randall CulpPlains$358K
- Asif IlyasBryn Mawr$295K
- Arthur OstermanKing Of Prussia$198K
- Meredith OstermanKing Of Prussia$196K
- Adam StrohlPhiladelphia$175K
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.