Nicholas Cheney, DO
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Westerville, OHNPI 1477752970
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $17,777 of the $20,714 with a category attached, or 85.8%. Flower Orthopedics Coporation accounts for 79.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $11,605 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $347 in 2025.
Across 30 payments — averaging $690.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Flower Orthopedics Coporation$17K
- Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC$4K
- Stryker$432
- Acumed LLC$79
- Innovation Technologies Inc$57
- Trimed, Inc.$51
- plus $55 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,77786%
- Travel & lodging$1,5888%
- Food & beverage$1,2996%
- Entertainment$510%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 11 | $16,541 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 6 | $3,500 |
| Stryker | 5 | $432 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $79 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $57 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $25 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Fibula Nail, 3.5mm x 130mm, Titanium, Flex-Thread$4,500
- Fibula Nail, 4.5mm x 130mm, Titanium, Flex-Thread$4,500
- Fibula Nail, 4.5mm x 180mm, Titanium, Flex-Thread$4,500
- Fibula Nail, 3.5mm x 180mm, Titanium, Flex-Thread$4,500
- ZERO Profile Interlocking Cortex Screw, 2.7mm x 14mm, T8, Flex-Thread$4,500
- INBONE$173
- NA$159
How this compares
$20,714 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 429 foot and 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.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Westerville
- Christopher HyerWorthington$4.7M
- Thomas LeePickerington$4M
- Jordan GrossmanAkron$2.5M
- Robert GorslineHilliard$1.4M
- Jonathan FeibelGahanna$1.4M
- Mark PrisselWorthington$1.2M
- Lee HladGahanna$440K
- Windy ColeKent$431K
- Elizabeth HewittGrove City$414K
- Dominic RizzoBlue Ash$303K
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.