Nicholas Powers, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1528410388
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 81 payments — averaging $96.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$3K
- Smith+Nephew$789
- Piedmont Plus Innovation$610
- Paragon 28, Inc.$587
- Stryker$428
- Johnson & Johnson$427
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$360%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1222%
- Travel & lodging$1,03813%
- Food & beverage$3,79849%
- Education$2,81036%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 7 | $2,828 |
| Smith+Nephew | 22 | $789 |
| Piedmont Plus Innovation | 3 | $610 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 7 | $587 |
| Stryker | 6 | $428 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $427 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 2 | $292 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $278 |
| Amgen | 3 | $255 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $203 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $146 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $126 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $99 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $96 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $87 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $66 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Stability Biologics, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $23 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $23 |
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.
- Portfolio$387
- RAYOS$370
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$292
- CERAMENT G$292
- VersaWrap$203
- STAR$146
- Novosorb BTM$146
- Grafix PL PRIME$138
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$123
- GORILLA$118
- GALAXY Fixation$110
- G-Beam Fusion Beaming System$110
- TL-HEX$110
- TrueLok Ring Fixation System$110
- XCaliber Articulated Ankle Fixator$110
- NUZYRA$110
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$107
- Stravix$104
How this compares
$7,804 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 575 foot & ankle surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 40 | $1,267 |
| Ketoconazole | 33 | $1,160 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 36 | $286 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 17 | $255 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 15 | $164 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 13 | $162 |
| Methylprednisolone | 18 | $128 |
| Meloxicam | 33 | $111 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Pittsburgh
- Peter MangonePittsburgh$1.1M
- Lisa Grant-McdonaldPittsburgh$198K
- Patrick BurnsPittsburgh$38K
- Sham PersaudPittsburgh$17K
- Michael SaviskyPittsburgh$16K
- William DecarboBelle Vernon$3.5M
- David PedowitzBryn Mawr$1.7M
- Noman SiddiquiScranton$1.3M
- Stephen BrigidoBethlehem$656K
- Guido LaportaDunmore$625K
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.