David Caminear
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Hamden, CTNPI 1841287091
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $36,130 of the $47,242 with a category attached, or 76.5%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC at 58.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $22,511 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $278 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in CT 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 136 payments — averaging $347.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC$28K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$9K
- Trimed, Inc.$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$4,64810%
- Consulting fees$36,13076%
- Travel & lodging$3,7548%
- Food & beverage$2,7106%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC | 50 | $27,524 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 4 | $9,446 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 3 | $3,160 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 14 | $2,182 |
| Stryker | 8 | $1,892 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 17 | $1,536 |
| International Life Sciences | 1 | $358 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $277 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $210 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 16 | $130 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $116 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 1 | $92 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $74 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Axogen | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 2 | $24 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- INSTRUMENTS$9,380
- HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREWS$9,380
- VARIAX$1,750
- First Fuse 1st MTP Joint Plating$1,250
- TrueLok Ring Fixation System$1,171
- TL-HEX$1,171
- Distal Fibula Plating System$1,000
- CANNULATED SCREWS$957
- First Fuse 1st MTP Joint Plating System$750
How this compares
$47,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 89 foot & ankle surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 118 | $1,167 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 41 | $1,018 |
| Lidocaine | 22 | $932 |
| Pregabalin | 51 | $470 |
| Gabapentin | 101 | $384 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 16 | $257 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 32 | $176 |
| Meloxicam | 74 | $143 |
| Cephalexin | 26 | $133 |
| Nabumetone | 12 | $100 |
| Silver Sulfadiazine | 17 | $81 |
| Prednisone | 21 | $67 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Hamden
- Allen FerrucciHamden$13K
- Nicola CorbettHamden$6K
- Jeffrey DelottHamden$4K
- Zubaria SaroojHamden$2K
- Thomas McDonaldEnfield$241K
- Jossie AbrahamNorwalk$152K
- Gabriel GambardellaBloomfield$99K
- James DejesusNaugatuck$40K
- William ProbascoFairfield$26K
- Adebola AdelekeMiddletown$24K
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.