Michael Wigton, MD
Hand Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1942591524
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.9%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Baxter Healthcare at 45.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,480 and has fallen 81.1% since, to $280 in 2025.
Across 11 payments — averaging $293.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$1K
- Legacy Ortho LLC$1K
- Axogen$238
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$125
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$102
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$27
- plus $53 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,48046%
- Food & beverage$54617%
- Education$1,20037%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $1,480 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Axogen | 3 | $238 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $102 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
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
$3,226 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 88 hand surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 18 | $189 |
| Meloxicam | 63 | $156 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $80 |
| Prednisone | 31 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Cincinnati
- Patrick MesserschmittCincinnati$58K
- Christopher ChenCincinnati$13K
- Peter SternCincinnati$6K
- Mohab FoadCincinnati$1K
- Sam KooCincinnati$1K
- Kevin LittleCincinnati$1K
- Kagan OzerCincinnati$573
- Matthew FlorczynskiCincinnati$559
- Mollie ManleyAkron$540K
- Harry HoyenCleveland$330K
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.