Sami Tuffaha, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Rochester, MNNPI 1922398866
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $11,025 of the $16,426 with a category attached, or 67.1%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Axogen at 40.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,911 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $369 in 2025.
Across 48 payments — averaging $342.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$7K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$5K
- Arthrex$2K
- Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$562
- Gemini Medical LLC$412
- AbbVie$278
- plus $661 from 7 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $5890.69 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Theratechnologies Inc.$35K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,02567%
- Grants$9186%
- Travel & lodging$740%
- Food & beverage$2,41415%
- Education$1,99612%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 11 | $6,659 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 8 | $5,446 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $2,408 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $562 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 5 | $412 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $278 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 2 | $194 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $109 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $57 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $53 |
| Stryker | 1 | $46 |
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
$16,426 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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
- Peter RheeRochester$88K
- Marco RizzoRochester$48K
- 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.