John Decato, DPM
Podiatrist · Ashtabula, OHNPI 1912983677
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,743 of the $3,943 with a category attached, or 69.6%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. at 30.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,444 and has fallen 64.6% since, to $511 in 2025.
Across 63 payments — averaging $62.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$1K
- Amgen$899
- Abbott$274
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$268
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$239
- Stryker$203
- plus $848 from 15 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $2100.00 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.
- Royal Biologics, Inc.$6K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,74370%
- Education$1,20030%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 2 | $1,212 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 18 | $899 |
| Abbott | 2 | $274 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 13 | $268 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $239 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 3 | $203 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $196 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $60 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $39 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $36 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Orthofix Medical, 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.
How this compares
$3,943 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 397 podiatrist providers in Ohio.
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.
Other podiatrist in Ashtabula
- Mark HardyAvon$2.1M
- Lawrence DidomenicoBoardman$1.1M
- Ralph NapolitanoNew Albany$494K
- Thomas GronerNiles$193K
- Michael MaierCleveland$120K
- Eric StortsLondon$101K
- Daniel LoganGahanna$83K
- Howard KimmelBrookpark$67K
- James HayesCleveland$31K
- Nathan RossiCleveland$31K
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.