William Hughes, MD
Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1447206867
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.8%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Integra Lifesciences Corporation accounts for 77.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,219, more than ten times the $238 reported in 2019.
Across 53 payments — averaging $109.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$5K
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$470
- Polynovo North America LLC$302
- Vericel Corporation$254
- Zimmer Biomet$139
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$132
Across 2 payments — averaging $2625.00 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.
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,50043%
- Food & beverage$3,30157%
- Education$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 33 | $4,518 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 7 | $470 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $302 |
| Vericel Corporation | 8 | $254 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $139 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 2 | $132 |
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$5,305
- OMNIGRAFT$2,500
- PRIMATRIX$1,085
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,085
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$364
- Novosorb BTM$302
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$214
- AMNIOEXCEL$214
- IDRT$214
- FLOWABLE$214
- RECELL$170
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$150
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$150
- AdvantageRib$139
- NexoBrid$119
- Epicel$119
- INSTRUMENTS-GENERAL SURGERY$112
How this compares
$5,815 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.