Gregory Santamaria, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Mount Pleasant, SCNPI 1598136996
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 47 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bioventus LLC at 48.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $23,752, 6.8 times the $3,510 reported in 2019.
Across 329 payments — averaging $128.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bioventus LLC$21K
- Stryker$7K
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$4K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$3K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$2K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$903
- plus $5K from 41 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,3105%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,76942%
- Travel & lodging$9,53523%
- Food & beverage$11,54327%
- Education$1,2003%
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.
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.
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$20,028
- Durolane$9,881
- Seglentis$3,121
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$2,454
- PROstep$1,321
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$909
- ANCHORAGE$741
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$692
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$622
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$599
- GRAVITY$585
- INBONE$585
- GRAVITY SYNCHFIX$585
- Lapiplasty System$582
- VARIAX$451
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$305
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$294
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$213
- CERAMENT G$213
- CARTIVA$188
How this compares
$42,356 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 87 foot & ankle surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 81 | $3,585 |
| Ketoconazole | 68 | $1,256 |
| Ciclopirox | 44 | $1,214 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 57 | $325 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 19 | $302 |
| Cephalexin | 39 | $215 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 26 | $197 |
| Ibuprofen | 37 | $165 |
| Mupirocin | 21 | $164 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 22 | $150 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $141 |
| Allopurinol | 25 | $130 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $69 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $57 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Mount Pleasant
- Benjamin OverleyHilton Head Island$643K
- Tyler GonzalezColumbia$525K
- Alison GartenRock Hill$419K
- Christopher GrossCharleston$394K
- Robert KleinGreenville$358K
- William JamesColumbia$222K
- William HarrisLancaster$203K
- Alexander PappasMyrtle Beach$104K
- John WomackGreenville$96K
- Michelle ButterworthKingstree$54K
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.