Ernest Hook, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Folsom, CANPI 1174614051
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $57.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$4K
- Stryker$560
- Smith+Nephew$398
- Bioventus LLC$263
- Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.$192
- Next Science LLC$172
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$120%
- Travel & lodging$1,85826%
- Food & beverage$5,17773%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 42 | $4,413 |
| Stryker | 4 | $560 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $398 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $263 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 32 | $192 |
| Next Science LLC | 3 | $172 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $169 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $148 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $137 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 6 | $110 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $55 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Sequoia Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| OVIK Health, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Amgen | 1 | $19 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $18 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $18 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Lapiplasty System$3,126
- Actishield$310
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$263
- PliaFX Flo$169
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$163
- TMC NANOPLASTY SYSTEM$155
- Cadence$149
- Senza$137
- Viaflow$137
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$137
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$136
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$136
- PRIMATRIX$136
- IDRT$136
- FLOWABLE$136
- Physio-Stim$116
- SurgX$112
- Xperience$112
- BlastX$112
How this compares
$7,047 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,126 foot & ankle surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JubliaEfinaconazole | 18 | $18,442 |
| Mupirocin | 62 | $524 |
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 22 | $305 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $151 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $149 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 14 | $146 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 14 | $129 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 16 | $97 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 17 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCJublia | $55 | $18,44218 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 1,126 foot & ankle surgery providers in California.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Folsom
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.