Keith Cook
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Newark, NJNPI 1235243106
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (45.0%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 42.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $23,234 and has fallen 82.0% since, to $4,183 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in NJ 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 158 payments — averaging $493.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$33K
- Osteomed LLC$25K
- Acumed LLC$14K
- Ossio Inc$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$1K
- plus $3K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$35,07845%
- Consulting fees$31,24740%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5002%
- Travel & lodging$2,6833%
- Food & beverage$7,3039%
- Education$2100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 31 | $32,920 |
| Osteomed LLC | 22 | $25,153 |
| Acumed LLC | 13 | $13,574 |
| Ossio Inc | 5 | $1,325 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 13 | $1,293 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 14 | $1,037 |
| Kerecis Limited | 11 | $982 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 15 | $476 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $410 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $159 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 2 | $118 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $113 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $106 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $99 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $67 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- VA-LCP$28,444
- EXT-Encompass$24,504
- OsteoMed$13,574
- EXT-ExtremiLock Ankle$1,622
- EXT-Cannulated$1,500
- EXT-ExtremiFix Midsize/Large$1,500
- EXT-Extremilock Foot$1,500
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$1,416
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,316
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$888
- INTEGRA$674
- Kerecis SurgiClose$521
- CITREFIX$488
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$304
- Actishield$263
- AXSOS$233
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$225
- PRIMATRIX$225
- SONICANCHOR$219
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$219
How this compares
$78,021 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 542 foot & ankle surgery providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonium Lactate | 85 | $1,784 |
| Ciclopirox | 21 | $924 |
| Clotrimazole | 26 | $483 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 12 | $315 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Newark
- Adam BernatskyNewark$12K
- John CozzarelliBelleville$932K
- Matthew RegulskiToms River$843K
- Michael SubikLyndhurst$529K
- Krupa PatelMorris Plains$281K
- Johanna GodoyWayne$254K
- Andrew BriefRidgewood$253K
- Mark SolomonCedar Knolls$232K
- Evan AdlerOld Bridge$195K
- Shane HollawellManasquan$169K
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.