John Sessions, PhD
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Albany, ORNPI 1750817714
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,483 of the $2,356 with a category attached, or 62.9%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Paragon 28, Inc. at 32.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $767 and has fallen 86.9% since, to $100 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in OR, where the typical reported total is $2,664.
Across 51 payments — averaging $46.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paragon 28, Inc.$758
- Stryker$470
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$347
- Smith+Nephew$226
- Steelhead Surgical Inc$188
- KCI USA, Inc.$81
- plus $286 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$52622%
- Food & beverage$1,48363%
- Education$34715%
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. | 8 | $758 |
| Stryker | 6 | $470 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $347 |
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $226 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 3 | $188 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $60 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $49 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $28 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Apria Healthcare LLC | 1 | $20 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- MONKEY RINGS$428
- Portfolio$267
- VARIAX$135
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$116
- HOFFMANN$107
How this compares
$2,356 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 113 foot & ankle surgery providers in Oregon.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 64 | $1,163 |
| Ofloxacin | 29 | $336 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 24 | $232 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $133 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $127 |
| Silver Sulfadiazine | 23 | $97 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Albany
- Natalie MesnierPortland$339K
- Stephen WallaceLake Oswego$205K
- Scott BoyntonPortland$120K
- Andrew ShinabargerPortland$85K
- Cassandra TomczakTualatin$73K
- Akash GuptaMilwaukie$40K
- Timothy MineoGresham$25K
- Justin BrohardSalem$24K
- Trevor HaynesSandy$21K
- Kevin DriscollPortland$21K
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.