John Schuberth, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1265510804
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $180,474 of the $215,817 with a category attached, or 83.6%. Exactech, Inc. accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in CA 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 189 payments — averaging $1141.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exactech, Inc.$138K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$50K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$14K
- Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC$10K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- Advita Ortho, LLC$966
- plus $2K from 13 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $1228.15 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.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$11K
- Smith+Nephew$951
Across 7 payments — averaging $3571.43 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC$25K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$180,47484%
- Travel & lodging$26,39812%
- Food & beverage$8,9454%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Exactech, Inc. | 109 | $137,909 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 35 | $50,372 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $13,863 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 7 | $9,847 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 9 | $1,054 |
| Advita Ortho, LLC | 1 | $966 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 6 | $784 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $243 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $208 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $92 |
| Voom Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $38 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $37 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $26 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- VANTAGE$130,396
- Portfolio$44,275
- Fibulink$13,077
- HammerLock2$13,077
- APEX 3D$4,969
- EPIC FOOT PLATE SYSTEM$3,164
- EQUINOXE$1,878
- EXACTECHGPS$1,479
- SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$847
- CADENCE ANKLE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM$847
- PANTA NAIL$847
- TOTAL FOOT SYSTEM$847
- HALLU-LOCK$534
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$453
- Additive Orthopedics$389
- ALLOWRAP$314
- INBONE$290
- APEX$198
- VITOSS$174
- HOFFMANN$174
How this compares
$215,817 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,126 foot & ankle surgery providers in California.
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 foot & ankle surgery in San Francisco
- Michael CoughlinSan Francisco$1.6M
- Tracey VlahovicSan Francisco$313K
- Charles ParksSan Francisco$225K
- Colin TraynorSan Francisco$75K
- Eric GizaSacramento$3.6M
- Thomas HarrisPasadena$3M
- Thomas ChangSanta Rosa$2M
- Vladimir ZeetserEncino$677K
- Jason NowakRedding$526K
- Candice BradyCamarillo$462K
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.