Michael Black, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1851589055
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Paragon 28, Inc. accounts for 61.8% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,703 and has fallen 55.9% since, to $751 in 2025.
Across 73 payments — averaging $66.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paragon 28, Inc.$3K
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$317
- Organogenesis Inc.$173
- Alafair Biosciences, Inc.$162
- Bioventus LLC$143
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$134
- plus $923 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,97241%
- Food & beverage$2,77157%
- Education$1062%
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. | 16 | $2,997 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $317 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $173 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Bioventus LLC | 6 | $143 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $134 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $129 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $118 |
| Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| DJO, LLC | 4 | $107 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $75 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $55 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $33 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $27 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $17 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $17 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Stryker | 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.
How this compares
$4,849 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 850 foot & ankle surgery providers in Florida.
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 | 34 | $517 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 73 | $361 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 41 | $334 |
| Meloxicam | 35 | $291 |
| Ibuprofen | 24 | $273 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $219 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 18 | $154 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $122 |
| Mupirocin | 16 | $118 |
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | $102 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $66 |
| Amoxicillin | 22 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Fort Myers
- Andrew BelisFort Myers$206K
- Chad SimmonsFort Myers$60K
- Thomas SangiovanniCoral Gables$2.1M
- Shayne JensenPanama City$1.3M
- Thomas RoukisOrlando$1M
- Craig BreslauerStuart$971K
- Bradley LammWest Palm Beach$861K
- Amber ShaneOrlando$830K
- Jonathan BlumKissimmee$785K
- Mario CalaHialeah$541K
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.