Benedict Ching, DPM
Foot Surgery · Fountain Valley, CANPI 1326038274
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $13,691 of the $19,338 with a category attached, or 70.8%. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Paragon 28, Inc. at 49.2% of the total. Among foot surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 399 payments — averaging $48.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paragon 28, Inc.$10K
- Stryker$3K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$2K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$2K
- Smith+Nephew$562
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$359
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,57329%
- Food & beverage$13,69171%
- Education$740%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 43 | $9,513 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 83 | $3,089 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 79 | $1,777 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 76 | $1,696 |
| Smith+Nephew | 23 | $562 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 7 | $359 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 18 | $281 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $235 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $202 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 3 | $141 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $141 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $132 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $123 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 5 | $113 |
| Stability Biologics, LLC | 1 | $96 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $88 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $83 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $68 |
| Vertex | 2 | $63 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $53 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 2 | $52 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 2 | $46 |
| Abbott | 2 | $44 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $44 |
| Sandoz | 2 | $43 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $35 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Resmed Corp | 1 | $26 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $26 |
| Amgen | 1 | $25 |
| TEI Medical Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $16 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 1 | $16 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Portfolio$2,953
- Product Portfolio$2,697
- INTEGRA$1,716
- Hammertube Sterile Implant Kits$695
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$572
- PRIMATRIX$572
- MONKEY RINGS$478
- Ankle Fracture$424
- Viaflow$416
- ANCHORAGE$247
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$169
- T2$169
- HOFFMANN$169
- Restrata Wound Matrix$159
- ASNIS$117
- SONICANCHOR$117
- MINIRAIL$117
- EASY CLIP$117
- GORILLA$108
- JAWS$108
How this compares
$19,338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 71 foot 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 42 | $849 |
| Gabapentin | 60 | $516 |
| Ketoconazole | 24 | $234 |
| Ibuprofen | 17 | $118 |
| Meloxicam | 33 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot surgery in Fountain Valley
- Alexander ReyzelmanSan Francisco$137K
- Helen ShnolBeverly Hills$22K
- Zachary KramerEncinitas$14K
- Tara HarringtonElk Grove$12K
- Jack MorganMonterey Park$11K
- Jaehyun KimSunnyvale$7K
- Ingrid EdelmanSan Diego$6K
- Spencer SterlingBellflower$5K
- Beverly SpursConcord$4K
- Dana LavianValencia$3K
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.