Peter Rhee, DO
Surgery of the Hand · Rochester, MNNPI 1487854766
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.3%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Trimed, Inc. at 59.0% of the total. Among surgery of the hand clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 161 payments — averaging $544.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$52K
- Synthes GmbH$14K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$11K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$7K
- Axogen$2K
- Stryker$984
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,82824%
- Speaking & faculty fees$37,12942%
- Travel & lodging$18,95622%
- Food & beverage$9,70211%
- Education$6981%
- Entertainment$2670%
- Other$1600%
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. | 60 | $51,771 |
| Synthes GmbH | 24 | $13,651 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 7 | $10,927 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 19 | $7,075 |
| Axogen | 19 | $1,500 |
| Stryker | 10 | $984 |
| Aptis Medical, LLC | 2 | $368 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $294 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $277 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $180 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $178 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $163 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 2 | $148 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $74 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $27 |
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.
- Checkpoint Stimulators$10,581
- INTEGRA PADGETT DERMATOMES$5,328
- INTEGRA DUO$5,328
- Tools - WFS$4,590
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$965
- INTEGRA$920
- TENOGLIDE$695
- INnate Implant$650
- InFrame Implant$472
- PRIMATRIX$456
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$456
- VARIAX$449
- Aptis DRUJ$368
- NEURAGEN$283
- ArrowPhix System$178
- ArcPhix System$178
- RADIUS$162
- ACell$160
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$149
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$149
How this compares
$87,741 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 21 surgery of the hand providers in Minnesota.
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 Rochester
- Sanjeev KakarRochester$2.1M
- Alexander ShinRochester$1M
- Marco RizzoRochester$48K
- Sami TuffahaRochester$16K
- Lauren TaglieroRochester$6K
- Richard BergerRochester$4K
- Allen BishopRochester$4K
- Ashley TitanRochester$3K
- Yoshiko ToyodaRochester$3K
- Matthew FahrenkopfRochester$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.