Eric Caporusso, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Altoona, WINPI 1366445587
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (58.2%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 94.3% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 45 payments — averaging $195.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$8K
- Smith+Nephew$402
- Next Science LLC$71
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$27
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,11058%
- Food & beverage$1,06812%
- Education$2,60830%
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 | 39 | $8,285 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $402 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $71 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $27 |
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.
- INBONE$5,546
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$1,778
- PROstep$1,168
- INFINITY$906
- SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$366
- VARIAX$162
- EASYFUSE$162
How this compares
$8,785 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 105 foot & ankle surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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 | 47 | $1,406 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 76 | $409 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 11 | $271 |
| Meloxicam | 46 | $116 |
| Cephalexin | 23 | $63 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $57 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $43 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Altoona
- Mitch HulbertSheboygan$96K
- James WhelanBeloit$51K
- Nikita GramaStevens Point$31K
- Keith AndersonHayward$31K
- Jay ChristensenAppleton$26K
- Jason BurkleMadison$26K
- Hui ZhangOak Creek$25K
- James TorhorstWaupaca$25K
- Todd DerksenAppleton$23K
- Spencer HammackPlatteville$20K
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.