Ricardo Navarrete
Foot & Ankle Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1821551763
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (52.6%), food and beverage and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 25.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,302 and has fallen 55.7% since, to $2,793 in 2025.
Across 148 payments — averaging $81.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$3K
- Medline Industries LP$2K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$884
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$844
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,37353%
- Food & beverage$5,72947%
- Gifts$220%
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 | 52 | $3,114 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 25 | $2,840 |
| Medline Industries LP | 8 | $1,653 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 7 | $1,006 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 12 | $884 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $844 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 4 | $777 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $145 |
| Curonix LLC | 4 | $129 |
| Amgen | 1 | $85 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $77 |
| Forthright Medical - AZ, LLC | 2 | $69 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $56 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $38 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $26 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $23 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $12 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $3 |
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.
- INTEGRA$1,512
- HOFFMANN$878
- Lapiplasty System$655
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$504
- PRIMATRIX$504
- Hammertube Sterile Implant Kits$501
- Portfolio$387
- PROstep$173
- OMEGA$149
- QUANTUM$145
- PROSTEP MICA$113
- ALLOMATRIX$101
- FLEXBAND$100
How this compares
$12,123 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,126 foot & ankle surgery providers in California.
Other foot & ankle surgery in San Diego
- Eric GizaSacramento$3.6M
- Thomas HarrisPasadena$3M
- Thomas ChangSanta Rosa$2M
- Michael CoughlinSan Francisco$1.6M
- Vladimir ZeetserEncino$677K
- Jason NowakRedding$526K
- Candice BradyCamarillo$462K
- Andrew HsuOrange$456K
- Eric TanLos Angeles$447K
- Joseph ParkBurbank$387K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.