Michael Neumeister, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Springfield, ILNPI 1326034448
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,919 with a category attached, or 62.5%. Wardlow Enterprises accounts for 62.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,526 and has fallen 88.3% since, to $179 in 2025.
Across 10 payments — averaging $191.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Wardlow Enterprises$1K
- Stryker$186
- Axogen$156
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$101
- AbbVie$97
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$89
- plus $89 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$71937%
- Education$1,20063%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wardlow Enterprises | 1 | $1,200 |
| Stryker | 2 | $186 |
| Axogen | 1 | $156 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $101 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $97 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $89 |
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.
How this compares
Too few surgery of the hand providers in Illinoisto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 19 | $67 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Springfield
- Nada BerrySpringfield$674
- Jason KoChicago$58K
- Christopher PelletiereInverness$28K
- Nicholas RauhElmhurst$4K
- Daniel LygrissePeoria$4K
- Robert WaltonChicago$3K
- Patrick StewartEffingham$3K
- Tiffany KadowWarrenville$3K
- Mansour MakhloufDes Plaines$2K
- Patricia BaltazarNew Lenox$1K
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.