Elliot Busch, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Allentown, PANPI 1578903555
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (47.5%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 33 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 43.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $10,771 and has fallen 93.3% since, to $721 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 332 payments — averaging $90.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$13K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$2K
- Mirus, LLC$2K
- Medline Industries LP$1K
- Organogenesis Inc.$1K
- plus $7K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,06013%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1891%
- Travel & lodging$14,30648%
- Food & beverage$11,53138%
- Gifts$220%
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) | 113 | $13,164 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $4,432 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 8 | $1,620 |
| Mirus, LLC | 1 | $1,615 |
| Medline Industries LP | 7 | $1,334 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 18 | $1,050 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $1,015 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $1,001 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 1 | $969 |
| Amgen | 82 | $924 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 7 | $529 |
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $376 |
| Novus Surgical Solutions LLC | 2 | $346 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 7 | $333 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $281 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $153 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $134 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 7 | $125 |
| Forma Medical | 1 | $113 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $112 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $54 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $43 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $28 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Synergy Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $10 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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.
- PROstep$4,692
- CANNULATED SCREWS$4,060
- DCP/LC-DCP PLATES & SCREWS$4,060
- HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREWS$4,060
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$4,060
- PROPHECY$2,842
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$2,058
- ATLAS Plating System$1,615
- INFINITY$1,440
- INBONE$1,018
- COLINK PLATING SYSTEM$1,015
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$1,005
- CoLink$969
- APEX 3D$960
- SALVATION$894
- GRAVITY$877
- GRAVITY SYNCHFIX$877
- Product Portfolio$538
- PuraPly$448
- VARIAX$426
How this compares
$30,109 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 575 foot & ankle surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 30 | $110 |
| Ibuprofen | 15 | $106 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 17 | $90 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Allentown
- Adam TeichmanAllentown$545K
- Thomas RocchioAllentown$524K
- Andrew PuckettAllentown$16K
- William DecarboBelle Vernon$3.5M
- David PedowitzBryn Mawr$1.6M
- Noman SiddiquiScranton$1.3M
- Peter MangonePittsburgh$1.1M
- Stephen BrigidoBethlehem$656K
- Guido LaportaDunmore$625K
- Jason MillerMalvern$501K
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.