Lew Schon, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1740224930
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 498 payments — averaging $1570.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$392K
- Arthrex$213K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$78K
- DJO, LLC$54K
- Ferring International Pharmascience Center US$14K
- Curvebeam LLC$9K
- plus $22K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$450,41560%
- Consulting fees$215,19429%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,0000%
- Travel & lodging$20,2223%
- Food & beverage$7,7091%
- Education$55,4157%
- Entertainment$2380%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 289 | $392,313 |
| Arthrex | 30 | $212,542 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 65 | $78,126 |
| DJO, LLC | 29 | $53,708 |
| Ferring International Pharmascience Center US | 2 | $14,095 |
| Curvebeam LLC | 5 | $8,817 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 33 | $7,661 |
| Carestream Health, Inc. | 16 | $7,316 |
| Avitus Orthopaedics, Inc. | 2 | $2,000 |
| Mirus, LLC | 3 | $1,500 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 2 | $1,211 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 1 | $1,200 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $279 |
| Ossio Inc | 2 | $250 |
| Acuitive Technologies, Inc | 1 | $154 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $146 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $121 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 2 | $119 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $40 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Solventum Corporation | 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.
- ARTHREX$744,326
- Trabecular Metal (TM)$262,536
- Trabecular Metal (TM) Ankle$95,375
- Portfolio$61,288
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HINDFOOT & ANKLE PROSTOP$51,264
- PROCARE$15,954
- AIRCAST$13,129
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS FOOT & ANKLE PROSTOP$12,365
- Trabecular Metal TM Instruments$11,250
- Product Portfolio$8,532
- AIRCAST Bracing & Supports$8,104
- PROCARE Bracing & Supports$8,104
- Medical Imaging$6,921
- WAVE PLATE$6,030
- Lapidus Plate$5,750
- Juggerknot$3,500
- Ziptight Ankle Syndesmosis$3,500
- Foot & Ankle Product Portfolio$2,400
- PD-Foot&Ankle-New Product$2,000
- ATLAS Plating System$1,500
How this compares
$782,057 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 182 foot and ankle surgery providers in Maryland.
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 and ankle surgery in Baltimore
- Stuart MillerBaltimore$624K
- Patrick MaloneyBaltimore$280K
- Gregory GuytonBaltimore$217K
- Walter HembreeBaltimore$166K
- Clifford JengBaltimore$157K
- James FickeBaltimore$32K
- Kyung SeoBaltimore$23K
- Richard SmithBaltimore$18K
- Jacob WisbeckBaltimore$17K
- Stephen JacobsenBaltimore$17K
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.