Robert Kang, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1134189780
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (41.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by KCI USA, Inc. at 45.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $13,735 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $66 in 2025. Among surgery of the hand clinicians in PA 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 124 payments — averaging $218.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- KCI USA, Inc.$12K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$6K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$3K
- Trimed, Inc.$2K
- Sientra, Inc.$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$624
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,30642%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,00011%
- Travel & lodging$5,65321%
- Food & beverage$7,09726%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| KCI USA, Inc. | 14 | $12,400 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 26 | $5,883 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 27 | $3,328 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 2 | $1,684 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 10 | $1,040 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $624 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 13 | $567 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $424 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $217 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $203 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $195 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $123 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $58 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $32 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- PREVENA RESTOR BELLAFORM$11,741
- PREVENA$11,642
- V.A.C. VERAFLO$11,307
- PROMOGRAN PRISMA$10,306
- V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE$10,094
- Ovitex$3,951
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$1,447
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$839
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$825
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$582
- BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$573
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$355
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$229
- 3M Cavilon$213
- ABTHERA ADVANCE$213
- ACTIV.A.C.$213
- EleVision$159
- NATRELLE$147
- Allevyn Life$125
- Acticoat Range$125
How this compares
$27,056 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 20 surgery of the hand providers in Pennsylvania.
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 Pittsburgh
- Jason YooPittsburgh$19K
- Debra BournePittsburgh$4K
- Raymond CaponePittsburgh$1K
- Vasanth KotamartiPittsburgh$210
- Joel KlenaDanville$56K
- Nathan MillerAllentown$11K
- Scott EisenhuthState College$10K
- Alexander SpiessTrafford$7K
- Eugene ParkPhiladelphia$6K
- Dana LavantureSayre$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.