Nikhil Agrawal, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1205253648
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,192 of the $4,820 with a category attached, or 87.0%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,543, 7.6 times the $203 reported in 2020.
Across 59 payments — averaging $81.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$288
- Polynovo North America LLC$286
- TELA Bio, Inc.$266
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$208
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$51011%
- Food & beverage$4,19287%
- Education$992%
- Other$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 8 | $1,094 |
| Abbott | 12 | $1,051 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $288 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $286 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $266 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $208 |
| Axogen | 2 | $180 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $161 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $127 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $120 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 4 | $110 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $110 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $104 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $99 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Vertex | 3 | $58 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $45 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Tools - WFS$661
- CARDIOMEMS$532
- LCP$288
- XIAFLEX$287
- Novosorb BTM$193
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$156
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$149
- HAMMERLOCK$144
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$127
- Nerve Tape$120
- OviTex 2S$117
- Checkpoint Stimulators$110
- Walter$104
- INnate Implant$100
- InFrame Implant$100
How this compares
$4,820 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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
- Nadeem ChaudhryBrooklyn$4K
- 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.