Benjamin Nafziger, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · North Canton, OHNPI 1750677027
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $94.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$5K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$2K
- Arthrex$480
- Stryker$255
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$172
- Smith+Nephew$150
- plus $845 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,51030%
- Food & beverage$2,09325%
- Education$3,67644%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 9 | $4,704 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 10 | $1,671 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $480 |
| Stryker | 8 | $255 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $172 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $150 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $124 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 6 | $112 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $98 |
| Amgen | 4 | $92 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 4 | $67 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Merck | 3 | $43 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Nexus Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $13 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $4 |
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.
How this compares
$8,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 429 foot & ankle surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 50 | $1,342 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 37 | $874 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 49 | $861 |
| Gabapentin | 55 | $726 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 40 | $545 |
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 16 | $418 |
| Fluconazole | 12 | $246 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 20 | $217 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 21 | $153 |
| Meloxicam | 20 | $33 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in North Canton
- Christopher HyerWorthington$4.9M
- Thomas LeePickerington$4M
- Jordan GrossmanAkron$2.5M
- Robert GorslineHilliard$1.4M
- Jonathan FeibelGahanna$1.4M
- Mark PrisselWorthington$1.3M
- Windy ColeKent$889K
- Elizabeth HewittGrove City$464K
- Lee HladGahanna$440K
- Dominic RizzoBlue Ash$303K
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.