Ilya Shnitser, DPM
Foot Surgery · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1932547635
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.0%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Paragon 28, Inc. at 29.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,010 and has fallen 71.2% since, to $868 in 2025. Among foot surgery clinicians in NY 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.
Across 109 payments — averaging $97.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paragon 28, Inc.$3K
- Stryker$3K
- Osteomed LLC$1K
- Smith+Nephew$761
- Organogenesis Inc.$482
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$316
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,25012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1261%
- Travel & lodging$3,05229%
- Food & beverage$6,06857%
- Education$1511%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 10 | $3,120 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 13 | $2,571 |
| Osteomed LLC | 11 | $1,321 |
| Smith+Nephew | 19 | $761 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 10 | $482 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 9 | $316 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $299 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $249 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $237 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $176 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 1 | $146 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $137 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $125 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $75 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $55 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $54 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Next Science LLC | 3 | $40 |
| Vertex | 1 | $26 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Product Portfolio$1,529
- Portfolio$722
- MTP$684
- EXT-Other$596
- ACUMED$490
- VARIAX$397
- PROstep$322
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$282
- Lapiplasty System$194
- ASNIS$160
- GRAFIX PL$147
- Restrata Wound Matrix$144
- CITREFIX$144
- HOFFMANN$144
- PROSTEP MICA$144
- Stravix$143
- Grafix$143
- GrafixPL$143
- VITOSS$138
- Actishield$138
How this compares
$10,647 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 294 foot surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clotrimazole | 52 | $1,204 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 14 | $264 |
| Ketoconazole | 12 | $126 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 14 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot surgery in Brooklyn
- Lawrence SantiBrooklyn$25K
- Evan BrethBrooklyn$17K
- Susan SchneidermesserBrooklyn$6K
- Vincent MelisoBrooklyn$6K
- Irina BelderBrooklyn$5K
- Leon StepenskyBrooklyn$4K
- Nicholas DangeloBrooklyn$4K
- Svetlana LuvishBrooklyn$4K
- Salvatore GaudinoBrooklyn$4K
- Paul LiswoodBrooklyn$4K
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.