David Kay, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Akron, OHNPI 1972582914
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $90,864 of the $134,368 with a category attached, or 67.6%. Stryker accounts for 80.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among foot and ankle surgery clinicians in OH 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 102 payments — averaging $1317.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$109K
- Linvatec Corporation$16K
- Trimed, Inc.$7K
- In2bones USA, LLC$2K
- Applied Medical Technology Inc$1K
- Henry Schein, Inc.$175
- plus $373 from 7 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $830.36 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.
- Stryker$7K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$90,86468%
- Consulting fees$14,53111%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,5928%
- Travel & lodging$3,9843%
- Food & beverage$1,3561%
- Other$13,04110%
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(2 entities) | 63 | $108,713 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 16 | $15,743 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 7 | $6,547 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 5 | $1,631 |
| Applied Medical Technology Inc | 2 | $1,185 |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | 1 | $175 |
| Xiros Inc | 2 | $156 |
| Ortho Solutions Inc | 1 | $98 |
| Peter Brasseler Holdings, LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Biogennix, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Orthofix Medical, 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.
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$70,964
- ORTHOLOC$15,866
- AVENGER RADIAL HEAD, +4 STEMS$12,965
- INFINITY$6,968
- PROPHECY$5,675
- R&D Foot and Ankle$4,491
- Tools - WFS$4,047
- PROstep$3,150
- Tools - AFS$2,500
- COLINK PLATING SYSTEM$1,620
- CoLink$1,332
- COLINK VALLUX$976
- AMT Bridle$928
- AMT Button$928
- G-Jet Transgastric-Jejunal Feeding Device$928
- Ascend Flex$595
- IBS$299
- Auxano$258
How this compares
$134,368 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 429 foot and 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 26 | $225 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 13 | $142 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Akron
- Jordan GrossmanAkron$2.5M
- Jeffrey JunkoAkron$67K
- Emre ErenAkron$19K
- Christopher HyerWorthington$4.7M
- Thomas LeePickerington$4M
- Robert GorslineHilliard$1.4M
- Jonathan FeibelGahanna$1.4M
- Mark PrisselWorthington$1.2M
- Lee HladGahanna$440K
- Windy ColeKent$431K
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.