Neal Zimmerman, MD
Hand Surgery · Lutherville, MDNPI 1447280805
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,831 of the $2,366 with a category attached, or 77.4%. Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC accounts for 83.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,849 and has fallen 88.5% since, to $212 in 2025.
Across 13 payments — averaging $182.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$2K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$196
- Johnson & Johnson$85
- Endo USA, Inc.$47
- Smith+Nephew$43
- Stryker$19
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$53523%
- Education$1,83177%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 3 | $1,976 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $196 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $85 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $43 |
| Stryker | 1 | $19 |
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.
- XIAFLEX$128
How this compares
$2,366 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 54 hand surgery providers in Maryland.
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 | 56 | $230 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 31 | $177 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Lutherville
- Christopher ForthmanLutherville$12K
- Keith SegalmanLutherville$4K
- Michael MurphyLutherville$2K
- Raymond WittstadtLutherville$2K
- Peter InnisLutherville$378
- John MooreLutherville$78
- Khurram PervaizCatonsville$26K
- Sunjay BerdiaRockville$24K
- Duc NguyenBaltimore$18K
- Karly LorbeerSilver Spring$13K
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.