Michael Brassell, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Newport News, VANPI 1932763927
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (44.1%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Liberty Surgical Inc. at 34.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,429 and has fallen 85.4% since, to $647 in 2025.
Across 114 payments — averaging $132.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$5K
- Stryker$5K
- Fortis Surgical, LLC$2K
- Kerecis Limited$790
- Smith+Nephew$573
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$396
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,46616%
- Food & beverage$5,95640%
- Education$6,63744%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 4 | $5,117 |
| Stryker | 43 | $4,512 |
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 10 | $1,719 |
| Kerecis Limited | 7 | $790 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $573 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $396 |
| Bioventus LLC | 8 | $342 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $320 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $244 |
| Accufix Surgical Inc. | 2 | $219 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $199 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $192 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $95 |
| Lifenet Health | 3 | $61 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $54 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $33 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Amgen | 2 | $28 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $17 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Globus Medical | 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.
- PROstep$2,399
- Kerecis SurgiClose$917
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$691
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$459
- INBONE$416
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$343
- Kerecis Omega3 Surgibind$343
- INTEGRA$321
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$289
- PRIMATRIX$250
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$250
- Stravix$229
- Kerecis GraftGuide$229
- INFINITY$163
- SALVATION$150
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$146
- AMNIOEXCEL$146
- IDRT$146
- FLOWABLE$146
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$143
How this compares
$15,059 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 260 foot & ankle surgery providers in Virginia.
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 | 25 | $447 |
| Ketoconazole | 19 | $362 |
| Allopurinol | 22 | $284 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 37 | $190 |
| Meloxicam | 75 | $165 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 16 | $132 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 34 | $107 |
| Cephalexin | 17 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Newport News
- Jeffrey LevyNewport News$18K
- Bryanna VeselyNewport News$16K
- Mark JonesNorth Chesterfield$2.4M
- Oliver SchipperArlington$1.2M
- Steven NeufeldFalls Church$857K
- Charles ZelenRoanoke$363K
- Ryan VazalesGlen Allen$337K
- Jugal DhariaFairfax$309K
- William SimonVirginia Beach$292K
- William GrantVirginia Beach$271K
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.