Travis Blood, MD
Hand Surgery · Warwick, RINPI 1700223815
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,944 of the $5,509 with a category attached, or 71.6%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.1%.
Across 83 payments — averaging $66.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Axogen$1K
- Encore Medical, LP$567
- Arthrex$449
- Kairos Surgical Inc$409
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$260
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,28023%
- Food & beverage$3,94472%
- Education$2855%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 21 | $1,272 |
| Axogen | 4 | $1,047 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 10 | $567 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $449 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 3 | $409 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $260 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $175 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $168 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $139 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $138 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $132 |
| Coastal Technology Solutions LLC | 2 | $110 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $87 |
| Amgen | 4 | $84 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $61 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Osteomed LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
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.
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$955
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$955
- DJO SURGICAL$376
- VARIAX$259
- NA$255
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$172
- Dynasplint$167
- Affixus$145
- Alps Clavicle$145
- Invictus MIS$139
How this compares
Too few hand surgery providers in Rhode Islandto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 187 | $820 |
| Ibuprofen | 91 | $530 |
| Methylprednisolone | 53 | $448 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 105 | $309 |
| Naproxen | 16 | $114 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Warwick
- Andrew MatsonWarwick$4K
- Arnold-Peter WeissProvidence$568K
- Edward AkelmanProvidence$24K
- Anthony DeluiseProvidence$7K
- Joseph GilEast Providence$7K
- Matthew AkelmanCranston$5K
- Julia KatarincicProvidence$2K
- Eric WalshProvidence$565
- Manuel DasilvaE Greenwich$429
- Joseph IzziProvidence$149
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.