Susanne Roberts, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Boston, MANPI 1669766655
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medartis Inc. at 49.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,309, 3.2 times the $415 reported in 2019.
Across 24 payments — averaging $166.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medartis Inc.$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Acumed LLC$331
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$154
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$143
- Endo USA, Inc.$141
- plus $162 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,70043%
- Food & beverage$2,29457%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medartis Inc. | 4 | $1,983 |
| Stryker | 7 | $1,081 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $331 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $154 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $143 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Axogen | 1 | $116 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
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.
- APTUS$1,893
- VARIAX$512
- XIAFLEX$247
- PANGEA$226
- EVOLVE$161
- ACUMED$147
- INnate Implant$147
- Anatomic Radial Head System$144
- T2 ALPHA$132
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$116
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$116
How this compares
$3,994 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 23 surgery of the hand providers in Massachusetts.
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 Boston
- Tamara RozentalBoston$30K
- Irene PienBoston$19K
- Jonathan WinogradBoston$6K
- Arriyan DowlatshahiBoston$3K
- Nicholas ElisseouBoston$2K
- Carl HarperBoston$1K
- Lydia HelliwellBoston$729
- Andrew TerronoBoston$626
- Peter KimWaltham$249K
- Eric ToloPeabody$4K
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.