Blayne McCaffrey, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Norfolk, NENPI 1881887263
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.6%), other and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Acera Surgical, Inc. at 34.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $821 and has fallen 78.7% since, to $175 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in NE, where the typical reported total is $5,810.
Across 22 payments — averaging $79.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$605
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$330
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$305
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$153
- Medline Industries LP$128
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$109
- plus $107 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$976%
- Food & beverage$1,03760%
- Other$60535%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $605 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 7 | $330 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $305 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $128 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $109 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Stryker | 2 | $31 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $17 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,738 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 43 foot & ankle surgery providers in Nebraska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 148 | $3,828 |
| Gabapentin | 98 | $3,032 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 59 | $1,176 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 37 | $301 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $253 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 32 | $218 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $118 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Norfolk
- Zackary GangwerNorfolk$66K
- Jason BaileyNorfolk$51K
- David WatersHastings$214K
- Eric SoLincoln$94K
- Bradley CoppleOmaha$83K
- Joshua VestLincoln$40K
- Robert GreenhagenOmaha$29K
- Patrick NelsonOmaha$28K
- Michael ZimmermanOneill$26K
- Matthew WilliamsonLincoln$22K
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.