Ogheneochuko Metitiri, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Poughkeepsie, NYNPI 1275827263
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,176 of the $1,950 with a category attached, or 60.3%. Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. accounts for 60.3% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,194 and has fallen 58.6% since, to $495 in 2025.
Across 16 payments — averaging $121.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$716
- DJO, LLC$40
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$18
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$181%
- Food & beverage$75639%
- Education$1,17660%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 2 | $1,176 |
| Stryker | 12 | $716 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 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.
- VARIAX$411
How this compares
$1,950 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 16 | $784 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 101 | $323 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Poughkeepsie
- Melvin RosenwasserNew York$613K
- Benjamin PlucknetteRochester$123K
- Karan DuaNew York$49K
- Mark EpsteinHauppauge$34K
- Amnon SadehForest Hills$12K
- Sheel SharmaNew York$9K
- Benny SetoVestal$8K
- Rachel ThibodeauBrooklyn$7K
- Amy BirnbaumNew York$5K
- Nikhil AgrawalBrooklyn$5K
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.