Frank Armocida, MD
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Greer, SCNPI 1720176126
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $14,400 of the $22,715 with a category attached, or 63.4%. Stryker accounts for 85.8% of it on its own, with 29 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $16,641 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $822 in 2025.
Across 157 payments — averaging $144.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$19K
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$1K
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$324
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$311
- Smith+Nephew$206
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$187
- plus $1K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$14,40063%
- Travel & lodging$3,55516%
- Food & beverage$4,76021%
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 | 30 | $19,483 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 41 | $1,136 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 19 | $324 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $311 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $206 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $187 |
| Bioventus LLC | 9 | $135 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $96 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 2 | $76 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $60 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Amgen | 4 | $50 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $50 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Vertex | 2 | $42 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $15 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $12 |
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.
- EZOUT$2,121
- SURG - INTERPULSE$600
- ORTHOMAP$446
- STRYKER NAV3$411
- MPO Medial Pivot Knee$187
- MAKO$141
- Integrity$136
- TACTOSET$133
- TRIATHLON$125
How this compares
$22,715 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 30 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.
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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 | 129 | $3,526 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 34 | $2,191 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 17 | $1,599 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 241 | $1,505 |
| Meloxicam | 115 | $308 |
| Naproxen | 43 | $297 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 177 | $242 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $205 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $126 |
| Cefadroxil | 18 | $102 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 48 | $93 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $52 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 12 | $40 |
| Amoxicillin | 15 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Greer
- Thomas EisonGreer$214
- Richard FriedmanCharleston$691K
- Justin BrothersMyrtle Beach$203K
- Erik HansenCharleston$192K
- John McCrossonMt Pleasant$176K
- Josef EichingerCharleston$117K
- Peter RamseyConway$59K
- Matthew SteinCharleston$29K
- Daniel DelgaizoBeaufort$25K
- Stephen FinleyGreenville$23K
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.