David Pougatsch
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Beverly Hills, CANPI 1619271616
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 194 payments — averaging $62.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$3K
- Organogenesis Inc.$2K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$1K
- Amgen$800
- Inari Medical, Inc.$686
- Smith+Nephew$614
- plus $4K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,91916%
- Food & beverage$10,13984%
- Education$70%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 30 | $3,220 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 56 | $1,586 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 6 | $1,187 |
| Amgen | 7 | $800 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 5 | $686 |
| Smith+Nephew | 17 | $614 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 16 | $599 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $485 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $390 |
| Stryker | 2 | $342 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $280 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 2 | $278 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 9 | $268 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $177 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $153 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $142 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Medline Industries LP | 8 | $124 |
| TEI Medical Inc. | 4 | $117 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $71 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $30 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Celularity Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
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.
- NEOX$2,768
- CLARIX$2,659
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,455
- INTEGRA$819
- KRYSTEXXA$730
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$680
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$680
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$485
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$485
- Oasis$365
- Topical oxygen chamber for extremities$278
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$273
- PRIMATRIX$273
- GRAFIX PL$267
- Kimyrsa$262
- Stravix$257
- Physio-Stim$212
- PROPHECY$174
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$168
- Portfolio$132
How this compares
$12,064 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,126 foot & ankle surgery providers in California.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Beverly Hills
- John ZimmermanBakersfield$4.6M
- Eric GizaSacramento$3.7M
- Thomas HarrisPasadena$3M
- Felix SigalLos Angeles$2.2M
- Thomas ChangSanta Rosa$2.1M
- Michael CoughlinSan Francisco$1.6M
- Vladimir ZeetserEncino$677K
- Jason NowakRedding$526K
- Candice BradyCamarillo$462K
- Andrew HsuOrange$456K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.