Nicholas Dimassa
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Belpre, OHNPI 1508391533
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $30,915 of the $48,831 with a category attached, or 63.3%. Acumed LLC accounts for 77.7% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $16,501, 9.8 times the $1,686 reported in 2020. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 169 payments — averaging $288.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$38K
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$6K
- Arthrex$2K
- Stryker$716
- Misonix Inc$493
- Smith+Nephew$420
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,2152%
- Speaking & faculty fees$30,91563%
- Travel & lodging$10,84522%
- Food & beverage$4,65610%
- Education$1,2002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 40 | $37,961 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 23 | $5,647 |
| Arthrex | 31 | $2,082 |
| Stryker | 8 | $716 |
| Misonix Inc | 13 | $493 |
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $420 |
| Bioventus LLC | 10 | $390 |
| Lifenet Health | 3 | $270 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $198 |
| Extremity Medical | 2 | $136 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $109 |
| Axogen | 1 | $81 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Abbott | 2 | $38 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $34 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC | 1 | $5 |
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.
- OsteoMed$68,046
- ACUMED$57,590
- INnate Implant$639
- PROstep$306
- INFINITY$170
- Stravix$142
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS IB LIGAMENT AUGMENTATION OTHER$121
- HAMMERLOCK$119
- VA-LCP$119
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$111
- INBONE$111
- Kimyrsa$109
- TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$101
How this compares
$48,831 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 26 | $350 |
| Ciclopirox | 16 | $310 |
| Cephalexin | 37 | $207 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 29 | $191 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 11 | $100 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Belpre
- 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.