Brent Bernstein
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Bethlehem, PANPI 1003878927
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (34.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. KCI USA, Inc. accounts for 72.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $28,607 and has fallen 77.9% since, to $6,310 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in PA 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 89 payments — averaging $442.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- KCI USA, Inc.$28K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$5K
- Arthrex$3K
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$778
- Stryker$649
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$607
- plus $1K from 14 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $961.61 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Zimmer Biomet$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,57034%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,25029%
- Travel & lodging$8,84822%
- Food & beverage$4,47711%
- Education$1,2003%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| KCI USA, Inc. | 27 | $28,437 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 10 | $4,674 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $2,773 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $778 |
| Stryker | 6 | $649 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 13 | $607 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 3 | $375 |
| Novus Surgical Solutions LLC | 3 | $206 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $170 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $140 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $89 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $83 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $79 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $74 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $55 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Bioventus LLC | 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.
- SNAP$18,683
- CELLUTOME$5,813
- ACTIVAC$3,375
- Portfolio$3,318
- MONKEY RINGS$1,241
- VAC ULTA$1,036
- INTEGRA$730
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$282
- VAC VERAFLO$260
- PREVENA$260
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$243
- PRIMATRIX$243
- BIOFOAM$140
- CITREFIX$140
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$140
- ILIZAROV$138
- NUZYRA$123
How this compares
$39,345 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 575 foot & ankle surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 15 | $1,457 |
| Mupirocin | 57 | $392 |
| Cephalexin | 19 | $169 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $92 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Bethlehem
- Stephen BrigidoBethlehem$656K
- William DecarboBelle Vernon$3.5M
- David PedowitzBryn Mawr$1.6M
- Noman SiddiquiScranton$1.3M
- Peter MangonePittsburgh$1.1M
- Guido LaportaDunmore$625K
- Adam TeichmanAllentown$545K
- Thomas RocchioAllentown$524K
- Jason MillerMalvern$501K
- James SferraCranberry Township$451K
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.