Casie Blanton, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1033564612
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 196 payments — averaging $85.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$7K
- DNE LLC$3K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$904
- Medline Industries LP$820
- Kerecis Limited$668
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,50015%
- Travel & lodging$4,73128%
- Food & beverage$9,46057%
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 | 90 | $7,406 |
| DNE LLC | 2 | $2,981 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 13 | $1,423 |
| Smith+Nephew | 41 | $904 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $820 |
| Kerecis Limited | 6 | $668 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 3 | $417 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $274 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $264 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 6 | $225 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $160 |
| Misonix Inc | 3 | $154 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $134 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $120 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $110 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, 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.
- PRIME SERIES$1,209
- TL-HEX$1,200
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,123
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$926
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$857
- TrueLok Ring Fixation System$806
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$760
- Dermatology and Wound Care$713
- Viaflow$591
- ALLOWRAP$408
- VARIAX$397
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$373
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$324
- CITREFIX$316
- ACTISHIELD CF$307
- TrueLok$259
- ANCHORAGE$252
- HOFFMANN$246
- Grafix$243
- GRAFIX PL$243
How this compares
$16,691 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 249 | $4,076 |
| Gabapentin | 104 | $709 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 55 | $607 |
| Pregabalin | 15 | $488 |
| Ciclopirox | 15 | $482 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 37 | $294 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 31 | $209 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 14 | $182 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 18 | $143 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $84 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 24 | $63 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Cincinnati
- Robert BrarensCincinnati$108K
- Chad MillerCincinnati$31K
- Timothy WylieCincinnati$22K
- 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
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.