Has Max Hamaker, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,419 in general payments to Max Hamaker, MD across 27 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Max Hamaker, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Max Hamaker, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Max Hamaker, MD

Hand Surgery · Glen Burnie, MDNPI 1033641238

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,668 of the $2,419 with a category attached, or 69.0%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 44.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,261 and has fallen 67.8% since, to $406 in 2025.

$2,419in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $89.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1K
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$877
Arthrex$286
Zimmer Biomet$78
Linvatec Corporation$53
Smith+Nephew$42

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$75131%
Food & beverage$1,66869%

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
Stryker	14	$1,083
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	5	$877
Arthrex	3	$286
Zimmer Biomet	2	$78
Linvatec Corporation	2	$53
Smith+Nephew	1	$42

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.

GAMMA$173
VARIAX$160
T2 ALPHA$106

How this compares

$2,419 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 54 hand surgery providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$165,051

Medicare patients

385

Services billed

2,635

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	37	$182
Oxycodone Hcl	31	$170
Cephalexin	16	$163
Methylprednisolone	23	$126

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Glen Burnie

Terrence O DonovanGlen Burnie$169
Khurram PervaizCatonsville$26K
Sunjay BerdiaRockville$24K
Duc NguyenBaltimore$18K
Karly LorbeerSilver Spring$13K
Christopher ForthmanLutherville$12K
Harrison SolomonChevy Chase$10K
Robert WilsonHyattsville$10K
Marvin DingleBethesda$7K
Mustafa HaqueBethesda$7K

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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.

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