Has Michael Bednarz, DPM received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $28,720 in general payments to Michael Bednarz, DPM across 156 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Bednarz, DPM did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Bednarz, DPM come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Bednarz, DPM

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Woodstock, GANPI 1942290705

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.5%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. accounts for 60.3% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $8,879 and has fallen 50.4% since, to $4,400 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$28,720in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 156 payments — averaging $184.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$17K
Arthrex$5K
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$2K
Intravu Inc.$2K
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$1K
United Orthopedics LLC$363
plus $2K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$12,50044%
Speaking & faculty fees$120%
Travel & lodging$7,78127%
Food & beverage$6,02821%
Education$2,4008%

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
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	46	$17,305
Arthrex	35	$4,777
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	16	$1,754
Intravu Inc.	2	$1,572
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$1,345
United Orthopedics LLC	1	$363
Nevro Corp.	2	$290
Trice Medical, Inc.	2	$262
Globus Medical	6	$221
Access Pro Medical, LLC	1	$168
Medtronic	2	$145
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	26	$143
Biopoly LLC	1	$113
Triad Life Sciences Inc.	3	$113
Amgen	4	$58
Tenex Health Inc.	2	$39
Zimmer Biomet	1	$18
Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC	1	$17
Arthrosurface Incorporated	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

$28,720 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 239 foot & ankle surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$122,176

Medicare patients

196

Services billed

1,709

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	43	$291
Gabapentin	35	$144
Allopurinol	30	$125
Promethazine Hcl	26	$78
Methylprednisolone	14	$71
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	22	$52
Cephalexin	12	$33
Meloxicam	14	$4

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Woodstock

Robert WeinsteinFayetteville$394K
Jason BariteauAtlanta$199K
Scott RomanPeachtree City$118K
Jeffrey FlashForest Park$114K
Mickey StappThomson$110K
David MurphyWaycross$55K
Rishin KadakiaAtlanta$53K
Javan BassLithonia$43K
Bhavin MehtaAtlanta$43K
Corbett ThigpenAugusta$41K

See the full list for Georgia →

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.

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