Michael Gazes
Foot & Ankle Surgery · West Haven, CTNPI 1962820522
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 12 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 8 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $1,838.
Across 12 payments — averaging $64.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$122
- Osiris Therapeutics Inc.$116
- Misonix Inc$114
- Bone Support Inc.$113
- Organogenesis Inc.$104
- Stryker$85
- plus $118 from 2 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $7142.86 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC$50K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$771100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $122 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $116 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $114 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Stryker | 1 | $85 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 2 | $64 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $54 |
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.
- BoneScalpel$114
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$113
- CERAMENT G$113
- Grafix$106
- Stravix$106
- Apligraf$104
How this compares
$771 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 89 foot & ankle surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 20 | $764 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 23 | $495 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 25 | $227 |
| Clotrimazole | 16 | $188 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 17 | $131 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 12 | $100 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in West Haven
- Glenn VitaleWest Haven$1K
- Ashley BrunoWest Haven$944
- Thomas McDonaldEnfield$241K
- Jossie AbrahamNorwalk$152K
- Gabriel GambardellaBloomfield$99K
- David CaminearHamden$47K
- James DejesusNaugatuck$40K
- William ProbascoFairfield$26K
- Adebola AdelekeMiddletown$24K
- Rachel AlbrightDarien$14K
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.