Obinwanne Ugwonali, MD
Hand Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1669448221
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,790 of the $2,633 with a category attached, or 68.0%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by United Orthopedics LLC at 25.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,222 and has fallen 71.1% since, to $353 in 2025.
Across 28 payments — averaging $94.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- United Orthopedics LLC$683
- Acumed LLC$306
- Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$247
- Boston Scientific$188
- Arthrex$185
- Smith+Nephew$150
- plus $876 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$84432%
- Food & beverage$1,79068%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| United Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $683 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $306 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 4 | $247 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $188 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $185 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $150 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Zynex Medical, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $108 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Osteomed LLC | 1 | $98 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $75 |
| Axogen | 3 | $62 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Biorez, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $36 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$2,633 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 77 hand surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 19 | $328 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $239 |
| Omeprazole | 36 | $132 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 22 | $121 |
| Meloxicam | 37 | $69 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Atlanta
- Eric WagnerAtlanta$173K
- Phani DantuluriAtlanta$120K
- Travis LittletonAtlanta$35K
- Nicole ZelenskiAtlanta$34K
- James SprattAtlanta$18K
- Jim RoderiqueAtlanta$14K
- Bryce GillespieAtlanta$10K
- Andy ChangAtlanta$7K
- Randall AlexanderAtlanta$7K
- Catphuong VuAtlanta$3K
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.