Has Eric Bellinger, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,716 in general payments to Eric Bellinger, MD across 49 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Eric Bellinger, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Eric Bellinger, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Eric Bellinger, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · East Syracuse, NYNPI 1538690367

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,716in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $116.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$1K
Kairos Surgical Inc$1K
Stryker$1K
Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
Medwest Associates$240
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc$152
plus $448 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,07136%
Food & beverage$2,33541%
Education$1,31023%

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
Arthrex	13	$1,346
Kairos Surgical Inc	2	$1,215
Stryker	15	$1,194
Paragon 28, Inc.	6	$1,121
Medwest Associates	2	$240
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc	1	$152
Johnson & Johnson	1	$117
Globus Medical	1	$105
Smith+Nephew	3	$102
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	4	$93
Lifenet Health	1	$31

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.

How this compares

$5,716 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 652 foot and ankle surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$57,864

Medicare patients

141

Services billed

814

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
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	12	$39

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot and ankle surgery in East Syracuse

James McWilliamHarrison$4.7M
Jonathan DelandNew York$4.1M
George Vitole Roy$2.5M
Constantine DemetracopoulosNew York$888K
Anne JohnsonNew York$815K
Scott EllisNew York$644K
John KennedyNew York$613K
Michael KellerKingston$532K
Judith BaumhauerRochester$365K
Edward AzarBrooklyn$224K

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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.

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