Nadeem Chaudhry, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1295741395
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,413 of the $4,092 with a category attached, or 83.4%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 29.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,283 and has fallen 85.6% since, to $329 in 2025.
Across 37 payments — averaging $110.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Axogen$1K
- Merck$222
- Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$208
- Shionogi Inc$159
- Olympus America Inc.$147
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$68017%
- Food & beverage$3,41383%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $1,194 |
| Axogen | 5 | $1,110 |
| Merck | 2 | $222 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $208 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $159 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $144 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 3 | $138 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $125 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $122 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $121 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $22 |
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.
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,065
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,065
- AVYCAZ$500
- DALVANCE$370
- Xerava$246
- ZERBAXA$222
- ThunderBeat$147
- STARLING SYSTEM$144
- EMBLAVEO$125
- XARELTO$125
- Fetroja$124
- t:slim X2 Insulin Pump with Control-IQ$123
- Kcentra$122
- ANDEXXA$121
How this compares
$4,092 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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.
Other surgery of the hand in Brooklyn
- Rachel ThibodeauBrooklyn$7K
- Nikhil AgrawalBrooklyn$5K
- Rebecca NicholasBrooklyn$693
- Michael HorowitzBrooklyn$596
- 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.