Benjamin Savasky, DPM
Podiatrist · Irvine, CANPI 1700240090
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.9%), travel and lodging and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 80.7% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,894 and has fallen 96.3% since, to $180 in 2025. Among podiatrist 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 166 payments — averaging $99.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$13K
- Bioness Inc$1K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$527
- Johnson & Johnson$341
- Nevro Corp.$269
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$235
- plus $579 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,03136%
- Food & beverage$9,41757%
- Education$5103%
- Entertainment$5984%
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 | 138 | $13,360 |
| Bioness Inc | 3 | $1,245 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 6 | $527 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $341 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $269 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $235 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $151 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $50 |
| AMDT Holdings, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
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.
- INBONE$2,286
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$2,145
- PROstep$1,665
- FIXOS$1,528
- AXSOS$1,528
- Stimrouter for pain$1,245
- ANCHORAGE$1,022
- SONICANCHOR$756
- HOFFMANN$707
- T2$705
- ASNIS$705
- SALVATION$405
- ALLOWRAP$381
- INTEGRA$323
- PRIME SERIES$308
- VARIAX$259
- Omnia$246
- CITREFIX$225
- ADAPT$193
- AXS INFINITY LS$167
How this compares
$16,555 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 721 podiatrist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonium Lactate | 163 | $3,026 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 154 | $2,602 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 73 | $1,326 |
| Ketoconazole | 39 | $960 |
| Gabapentin | 100 | $774 |
| Methylprednisolone | 99 | $569 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 33 | $516 |
| Ciclopirox | 14 | $316 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 58 | $293 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 13 | $157 |
| Meloxicam | 21 | $139 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $61 |
| Levofloxacin | 18 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Irvine
- Shannon RushPleasanton$1.9M
- Babak BaravarianSanta Monica$1.1M
- Robert KleimanCalexico$913K
- Bruce LawrenceOceanside$810K
- David ArmstrongLos Angeles$695K
- Philip WrotslavskyPoway$269K
- Travis WestermeyerEncinitas$158K
- Adrienne EstesPomona$129K
- Ronald LiebermanEncinitas$109K
- Matthew DoyleMountain View$92K
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.