Michael Horowitz, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1447498415
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 33 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $211 and has fallen 72.5% since, to $58 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery of the hand clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $1,726.
Across 33 payments — averaging $18.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$108
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$90
- Boston Scientific$75
- AbbVie$59
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$49
- Stryker$34
- plus $182 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$596100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $108 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $90 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $75 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $59 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $49 |
| Stryker | 2 | $34 |
| Amgen | 2 | $33 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Vertex | 1 | $25 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $17 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Carestream Health, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Axogen | 1 | $15 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$596 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 40 surgery of the hand providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 34 | $162 |
| Ibuprofen | 39 | $103 |
| Cephalexin | 43 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Brooklyn
- Rachel ThibodeauBrooklyn$7K
- Nikhil AgrawalBrooklyn$5K
- Nadeem ChaudhryBrooklyn$4K
- Rebecca NicholasBrooklyn$693
- Anup GheewalaBrooklyn$466
- Ronald SolomonBrooklyn$271
- Melvin RosenwasserNew York$613K
- Benjamin PlucknetteRochester$123K
- Karan DuaNew York$49K
- Mark EpsteinHauppauge$34K
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.