Has Trent Gause, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,734 in general payments to Trent Gause, MD across 32 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Trent Gause, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Trent Gause, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Trent Gause, MD

Hand Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1811359359

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $4,800 of the $7,734 with a category attached, or 62.1%. Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC accounts for 76.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,600 and has fallen 96.5% since, to $127 in 2025.

$7,734in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $241.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$6K
Arthrex$1K
Medartis Inc.$305
Catalyst Orthoscience$127
Smith+Nephew$124
Exactech, Inc.$107
plus $75 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,84024%
Food & beverage$1,09414%
Education$4,80062%

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
Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC	9	$5,891
Arthrex	17	$1,105
Medartis Inc.	2	$305
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$127
Smith+Nephew	1	$124
Exactech, Inc.	1	$107
Stryker	1	$75

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

$7,734 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 110 hand surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$86,488

Medicare patients

244

Services billed

2,624

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
Methylprednisolone	17	$208
Meloxicam	43	$78
Cephalexin	13	$14

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Peter TangPittsburgh$85K
Bradley PalmerPittsburgh$4K
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Randall CulpPlains$358K
Asif IlyasBryn Mawr$295K
Arthur OstermanKing Of Prussia$198K
Meredith OstermanKing Of Prussia$196K
Adam StrohlPhiladelphia$175K

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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.

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