Has Ettore Vulcano, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $411,230 in general payments to Ettore Vulcano, MD across 326 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 Ettore Vulcano, 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 Ettore Vulcano, 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.

Ettore Vulcano, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · Miami Beach, FLNPI 1689070906

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.4%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. at 56.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $177,429, more than ten times the $895 reported in 2019. Among foot and ankle surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$411,230in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 326 payments — averaging $1261.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$233K
Novastep Inc.$82K
Vilex LLC$71K
Stryker$24K
Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$895
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$127
plus $185 from 5 others

$2,212in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $76.27 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Stryker$2K

$5,147in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $857.83 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Curvebeam LLC$5K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$76,49419%
Consulting fees$244,07159%
Speaking & faculty fees$20,6285%
Travel & lodging$63,88016%
Food & beverage$5,2621%
Education$8950%

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.	170	$233,344
Novastep Inc.	67	$81,767
Vilex LLC	58	$70,876
Stryker(2 entities)	21	$24,035
Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.	1	$895
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$127
Vericel Corporation	2	$50
Embody, Inc.	1	$41
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$38
Zimmer Biomet	1	$37
Johnson & Johnson	1	$20

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 1$144,745
Lapiplasty System$82,511
PECA Bunion Correction System$41,934
PECAPLASTY$28,849
R&D Foot and Ankle$20,628
ZADEX$16,575
NITINEX$14,664
Artemis Zadex$13,882
Staple F&A Fixation$7,209
CENTROLOCK MIS Bunion Correction$6,615
HINTERMANN$6,364
RD Staple P1$6,330
PROstep$3,099
PECA-C Compressive Implants$2,771
ARTEMIS Calc Slide - R&D$2,587
Artemis$2,338
TMC NANOPLASTY SYSTEM$2,138
FUSIONFRAME Ring Lock Circular Fixator$807
PERCUPLASTY TRAY$731
Lapiplasty$413

How this compares

$411,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 850 foot and ankle surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$202,734

Medicare patients

380

Services billed

1,553

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
Gabapentin	117	$1,127
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	128	$1,055
Ibuprofen	132	$214
Meloxicam	48	$210

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot and ankle surgery in Miami Beach

Thomas SangiovanniCoral Gables$2.1M
Shayne JensenPanama City$1.3M
Thomas RoukisOrlando$1M
Craig BreslauerStuart$971K
Bradley LammWest Palm Beach$861K
Amber ShaneOrlando$830K
Jonathan BlumKissimmee$785K
Mario CalaHialeah$541K
Christopher ReevesLake Mary$424K
Rafael LappostMiami Lakes$319K

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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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