Alaa Fawaz
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Livonia, MINPI 1093455081
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 48 payments — averaging $81.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$652
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$626
- Johnson & Johnson$347
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$263
- Surgenex LLC$169
- Amgen$164
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$52813%
- Food & beverage$3,38787%
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 | 9 | $652 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $626 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $347 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $263 |
| Surgenex LLC | 1 | $169 |
| Amgen | 3 | $164 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $161 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $135 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $133 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $133 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $122 |
| Vertex | 1 | $121 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $101 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $49 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $40 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $35 |
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.
- MOTOBAND$611
- RENASYS TOUCH$270
- TMC NANOPLASTY SYSTEM$210
- SurGraft$169
- SurMatrix$169
- ArdeoGraft$169
- PelloGraft$169
- RenoGraft$169
- PICO 7$135
- Restrata Wound Matrix$134
- MIRRAGEN ADVANCED WOUND MATRIX$133
- Actishield$129
- KRYSTEXXA$121
- JOURNAVX$121
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$118
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$118
- PANGEA$112
- Qutenza$111
- PROSTEP MICA$108
How this compares
$3,915 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 384 foot & ankle surgery providers in Michigan.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Livonia
- Joshua FaleyLivonia$30K
- Tyler ZimmermannLivonia$17K
- John AndersonGrand Rapids$1.3M
- Brian LoderClinton Township$893K
- Karl DunnClinton Twp$434K
- John MaskillGrand Rapids$424K
- Anthony LalamaMacomb$421K
- Christopher ZingasSaint Clair Shores$227K
- Michael SwordsLansing$202K
- Gregory SheremetaTroy$87K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.