Has Vanessa Charubhumi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,546 in general payments to Vanessa Charubhumi, MD across 27 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 Vanessa Charubhumi, 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 Vanessa Charubhumi, 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.

Vanessa Charubhumi, MD

Hand Surgery · Bronx, NYNPI 1043669138

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (52.4%), grants and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 62.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,074 and has fallen 82.9% since, to $867 in 2025.

$9,546in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $353.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$6K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
Axogen$243
Stryker$133
Acumed LLC$131
Biocircuit Technologies Inc$76
plus $52 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Grants$2,98431%
Food & beverage$1,56216%
Education$5,00052%

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
Smith+Nephew	14	$5,926
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$2,984
Axogen	2	$243
Stryker	4	$133
Acumed LLC	2	$131
Biocircuit Technologies Inc	1	$76
Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.	2	$29
Johnson & Johnson	1	$24

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.

Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$244
Panta 2$150
NOVOSTITCH$137
ULTRABUTTON$137
ACUMED$126
OsteoMed$126
INnate Implant$126

How this compares

$9,546 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 178 hand surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$31,965

Medicare patients

Services billed

1,345

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
Diclofenac Sodium	43	$1,595
Ibuprofen	48	$176
Naproxen	16	$156
Meloxicam	27	$38
Triamcinolone Acetonide	12	$22

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Eloy Tabeayo AlvarezBronx$12K
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

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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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