Mehul Mehta, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Warren, MINPI 1770575763
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,441 of the $5,875 with a category attached, or 75.6%. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,193 and has fallen 60.4% since, to $867 in 2025.
Across 93 payments — averaging $63.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$1K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1K
- Pinnacle, Inc$1K
- Arthrex$661
- Stryker$452
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$335
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,34923%
- Food & beverage$4,44176%
- Education$851%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 12 | $1,092 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 27 | $1,066 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 8 | $1,045 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $661 |
| Stryker | 4 | $452 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $335 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $276 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $150 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $125 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 7 | $123 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $51 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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$821
- XIAFLEX$690
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$393
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$393
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$258
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$258
- VARIAX$255
- KRYSTEXXA$242
- FIXOS$138
- BIO4$138
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$125
- PRIMATRIX$118
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$118
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$118
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$118
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$118
- APTUS$100
How this compares
$5,875 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 41 surgery of the hand providers in Michigan.
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 | 151 | $658 |
| Ibuprofen | 27 | $254 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Warren
- Alberto AvilesWarren$22K
- Emily AbbottWarren$14K
- Edmund GradyWarren$9K
- Jeremy CiulloWarren$3K
- Samson SamuelWarren$2K
- Kyle BohmWarren$1K
- Leslie WongGrand Rapids$185K
- Ara BushShelby Township$18K
- Michael FitzsimmonsYpsilanti$13K
- Andrew TsaiDetroit$11K
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.