Benjamin Clair, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Frisco, TXNPI 1588839534
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,462 of the $5,462 with a category attached, or 63.4%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 38.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,837 and has fallen 70.8% since, to $828 in 2025.
Across 58 payments — averaging $94.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Ortho Solutions Inc$607
- Gemini Medical LLC$268
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$218
- Smith+Nephew$215
- plus $358 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00037%
- Food & beverage$3,46263%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 4 | $2,087 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 30 | $1,708 |
| Ortho Solutions Inc | 3 | $607 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 3 | $268 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $218 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $215 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $112 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $45 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $45 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $11 |
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.
- STAR$367
- HOFFMANN$233
- Healicoil$166
- Q-FIX$166
- INFINITY$161
- BIOskin$140
- PROPHECY$138
- VALOR$138
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$138
- Lapiplasty System$125
- SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$101
- CADENCE ANKLE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM$101
- HALLU-LOCK$101
- PANTA NAIL$101
- TOTAL FOOT SYSTEM$101
How this compares
$5,462 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 684 foot & ankle surgery providers in Texas.
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.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Frisco
- Leroy ButlerFrisco$117K
- Toritsenere OnosodeFrisco$55K
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Graham HamiltonEdinburg$2.1M
- Mark DaltonAustin$1.9M
- Kevin VarnerHouston$1.1M
- Paul KimDallas$928K
- Sherman NaglerHouston$602K
- John EarlyDallas$553K
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.