Behnam Massaband, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Los Angeles, CANPI 1760481741
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $74.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$2K
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$756
- Amgen$322
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$282
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$209
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2985%
- Food & beverage$5,92795%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 16 | $2,050 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 10 | $1,056 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 11 | $756 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 6 | $322 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $282 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $209 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 3 | $204 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $204 |
| Medline Industries LP | 4 | $188 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $171 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $170 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $155 |
| Celularity Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $70 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $58 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$1,694
- HemiCAP MTP Resurfacing$707
- PRIMATRIX$681
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$681
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$193
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$170
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$170
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$153
- Interfyl$138
- KRYSTEXXA$126
- AUGMENT$126
- MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, INC.$126
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$117
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$117
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$117
- NEOX$105
- CLARIX$105
How this compares
$6,225 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,126 foot & ankle surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 23 | $673 |
| Clotrimazole | 13 | $317 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 15 | $135 |
| Gabapentin | 21 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Los Angeles
- Felix SigalLos Angeles$2.2M
- Eric TanLos Angeles$447K
- Timothy CharltonLos Angeles$125K
- Suzette LeeLos Angeles$86K
- Christopher KiddLos Angeles$60K
- John ZimmermanBakersfield$4.6M
- Eric GizaSacramento$3.7M
- Thomas HarrisPasadena$3M
- Thomas ChangSanta Rosa$2.1M
- Michael CoughlinSan Francisco$1.6M
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.