Ramez Sakkab
Podiatrist · Auburn, CANPI 1396305033
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (37.4%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 27.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,509, more than ten times the $587 reported in 2020. Among podiatrist clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 250 payments — averaging $131.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$9K
- ETS Wound Care LLC$8K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$2K
- Impactortho, Inc.$2K
- Forthright Medical - AZ, LLC$2K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$2K
- plus $8K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,26216%
- Travel & lodging$12,30037%
- Food & beverage$11,18734%
- Education$3,66511%
- Entertainment$4391%
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 | 80 | $9,051 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 13 | $7,684 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 14 | $2,419 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 6 | $1,994 |
| Forthright Medical - AZ, LLC | 35 | $1,895 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 7 | $1,603 |
| Arthrex | 19 | $1,467 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 3 | $1,319 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 30 | $1,244 |
| Medline Industries LP | 6 | $1,089 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 8 | $1,036 |
| Smith+Nephew | 14 | $824 |
| Koya Medical, Inc. | 1 | $169 |
| Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $167 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $148 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $136 |
| Vertex | 1 | $124 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $89 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $15 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MIRRAGEN ADVANCED WOUND MATRIX$7,460
- INFINITY$2,151
- Lapiplasty System$2,046
- INBONE$1,669
- TrueLok$1,604
- Portfolio$1,491
- PROstep$1,297
- HOFFMANN$898
- BioBrace 23mm$653
- Dayspring$508
- FLEXBAND$328
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$312
- Actishield$278
- PROPHECY$273
- Koya Medical$169
- SALVATION$162
- COLINK AFX$156
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$152
- QUANTUM$151
- Cadence$149
How this compares
$32,853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 721 podiatrist providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 18 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Auburn
- Shannon RushPleasanton$1.9M
- Babak BaravarianSanta Monica$1.1M
- Robert KleimanCalexico$913K
- Bruce LawrenceOceanside$810K
- David ArmstrongLos Angeles$695K
- Philip WrotslavskyPoway$269K
- Travis WestermeyerEncinitas$158K
- Adrienne EstesPomona$129K
- Ronald LiebermanEncinitas$109K
- Matthew DoyleMountain View$92K
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.