Christopher Digiovanni, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Providence, RINPI 1699715920
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $409,536 of the $665,475 with a category attached, or 61.5%. Extremity Medical accounts for 70.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among foot and ankle surgery clinicians in RI 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 158 payments — averaging $4211.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Extremity Medical$469K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$151K
- Stryker$20K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$11K
- Ossio Inc$10K
- Arthrex$2K
- plus $2K from 2 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $629.17 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Extremity Medical$4K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$0
- Paragon 28, Inc.$0
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$409,53662%
- Consulting fees$226,61234%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,2382%
- Travel & lodging$10,5472%
- Food & beverage$2,0780%
- Education$1,4650%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Extremity Medical | 62 | $469,496 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 19 | $150,752 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 39 | $20,239 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 16 | $11,322 |
| Ossio Inc | 11 | $10,194 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $1,922 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $1,500 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
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.
- XMCP$409,536
- IO FiX$334,403
- CarpalFiX$249,419
- Jones$71,142
- OsteoStrand$58,041
- Strand$29,250
- CARTIVA$14,934
- Foot and Ankle$9,115
- Physio-Stim$4,688
- Joint prep$4,050
- Jones Screw$2,850
- CARTIVA SYNTHETIC CARTILAGE IMPLANT$2,588
- Accell TBM (Total Bone Matrix)$2,478
- R&D Foot and Ankle$2,300
- AUGMENT$2,300
- PD-Foot&Ankle-New Product$1,500
- Cartilaginator$1,400
- Facet Fixation$419
How this compares
$665,475 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 58 foot and ankle surgery providers in Rhode Island.
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.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Providence
- Brian PontarelliProvidence$15K
- Tejal MessanaProvidence$8K
- Mark MessanaProvidence$8K
- Erik HaniukProvidence$5K
- Traci Bologna-JillProvidence$5K
- Peter SardellaProvidence$4K
- Krysia LepoerProvidence$3K
- Michael NearyProvidence$2K
- James PascalidesProvidence$102
- Brandi KimbleProvidence$59
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.