Steven Koehler, MD
Hand Surgery · Bronx, NYNPI 1821387085
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (38.3%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Integra Lifesciences Corporation accounts for 60.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $23,480 and has fallen 92.8% since, to $1,696 in 2025. Among hand surgery clinicians in NY 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 159 payments — averaging $400.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$38K
- Trimed, Inc.$17K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$6K
- Stryker$965
- Johnson & Johnson$663
- Axogen$265
- plus $510 from 4 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $3587.01 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.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$11K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$24,37538%
- Speaking & faculty fees$20,95033%
- Travel & lodging$10,77817%
- Food & beverage$7,09411%
- Gifts$360%
- Entertainment$3861%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 102 | $38,485 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 29 | $16,981 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 4 | $5,750 |
| Stryker | 1 | $965 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $663 |
| Axogen | 4 | $265 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 7 | $225 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 2 | $141 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $103 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $41 |
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.
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$16,573
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$16,276
- IDRT$16,276
- FLOWABLE$16,276
- ADVANCED WOUND CARE$11,425
- INTEGRA$7,467
- Checkpoint Stimulators$5,739
- NEURAGEN NERVE GUIDE$4,748
- TENOGLIDE TENDON PROTECTOR SHEET$4,748
- NEURAGEN$3,337
- PRIMATRIX$1,328
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,027
- AXSOS$965
- TENOGLIDE$479
- DYNACORD$351
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$296
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$296
- Tools - WFS$245
- AMNIOEXCEL$241
- TCC-EZ$241
How this compares
$63,618 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 178 hand surgery 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.
Other hand surgery in Bronx
- Eloy Tabeayo AlvarezBronx$12K
- Vanessa CharubhumiBronx$10K
- Scott WolfeNy$251K
- Nader PaksimaNew York$171K
- Peter SteinGreat Neck$131K
- Michael HausmanNew York$128K
- Otis BarronNew York$122K
- Kevin SetterEast Syracuse$118K
- Nathan EverdingSyracuse$98K
- David TuckmanGreat Neck$96K
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.