Nathan Blanton
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1760836506
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 145 payments — averaging $73.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$8K
- Legacy Ortho LLC$1K
- Kerecis Limited$514
- Smith+Nephew$323
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$303
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$138
- plus $573 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,29712%
- Food & beverage$8,18477%
- Education$1,20011%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 110 | $7,631 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $514 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $323 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 4 | $303 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $120 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $118 |
| Misonix Inc | 2 | $105 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $41 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- PRIME SERIES$1,209
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$859
- VARIAX$849
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$758
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$620
- Kerecis SurgiClose$599
- Viaflow$589
- ANCHORAGE$395
- FIXOS$387
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$383
- ALLOGRAFT$315
- ACTISHIELD CF$307
- ALLOWRAP$264
- CITREFIX$253
- GRAFIX PL$236
- Stravix$236
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$157
- Kerecis GraftGuide$150
- EASY CLIP$146
- CLARIX$140
How this compares
$10,681 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 429 foot & ankle surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 35 | $350 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 16 | $237 |
| Gabapentin | 21 | $197 |
| Ciclopirox | 15 | $151 |
| Cephalexin | 34 | $112 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 12 | $103 |
| Prednisone | 26 | $93 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $87 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $69 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Cincinnati
- Robert BrarensCincinnati$108K
- Chad MillerCincinnati$31K
- Timothy WylieCincinnati$22K
- Christopher HyerWorthington$4.9M
- Thomas LeePickerington$4M
- Jordan GrossmanAkron$2.5M
- Robert GorslineHilliard$1.4M
- Jonathan FeibelGahanna$1.4M
- Mark PrisselWorthington$1.3M
- Windy ColeKent$889K
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.