Matthew Fahrenkopf, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Rochester, MNNPI 1083028161
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,256 of the $2,871 with a category attached, or 78.6%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Trimed, Inc. at 25.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,153 and has fallen 83.6% since, to $189 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery of the hand clinicians in MN, where the typical reported total is $3,104.
Across 38 payments — averaging $75.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$724
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$409
- Axogen$315
- Sientra, Inc.$267
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$195
- Stryker$179
- plus $782 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,25679%
- Education$61421%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 6 | $724 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $409 |
| Axogen | 4 | $315 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 5 | $267 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 2 | $195 |
| Stryker | 3 | $179 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $150 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $134 |
| Aptis Medical, LLC | 1 | $131 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $95 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $89 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $82 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Medwest Associates | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$254
- RECELL$150
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$134
- Aptis DRUJ$131
- VARIAX$128
- TENOGLIDE TENDON PROTECTOR SHEET$119
- NEURAGEN NERVE GUIDE$119
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$113
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$113
- AMNIOEXCEL$113
- IDRT$113
- FLOWABLE$113
- Tools - CFS$110
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$105
How this compares
$2,871 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 21 surgery of the hand providers in Minnesota.
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 | 55 | $99 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Rochester
- Sanjeev KakarRochester$2.1M
- Alexander ShinRochester$1M
- Peter RheeRochester$88K
- Marco RizzoRochester$48K
- Sami TuffahaRochester$16K
- Lauren TaglieroRochester$6K
- Richard BergerRochester$4K
- Allen BishopRochester$4K
- Ashley TitanRochester$3K
- Yoshiko ToyodaRochester$3K
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.