Sham Persaud, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1982091906
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (52.4%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.0%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,258 and has fallen 74.3% since, to $1,352 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in PA 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 106 payments — averaging $161.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Arthrex$3K
- Linvatec Corporation$2K
- Novastep Inc.$2K
- Acumed LLC$2K
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$1K
- plus $4K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5009%
- Travel & lodging$8,95352%
- Food & beverage$3,57921%
- Education$3,05718%
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(2 entities) | 29 | $2,735 |
| Arthrex | 18 | $2,619 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 5 | $2,450 |
| Novastep Inc. | 9 | $2,213 |
| Acumed LLC | 8 | $1,878 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 10 | $1,424 |
| Voom Medical Devices, Inc. | 3 | $1,189 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 1 | $1,048 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $636 |
| Celularity Inc. | 2 | $262 |
| Bioventus LLC | 6 | $207 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 1 | $193 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 2 | $79 |
| Theramicro, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- ACUMED$4,962
- INFINITY$2,054
- COLINK PLATING SYSTEM$1,809
- REVCON$1,189
- PECA-C Compressive Implants$1,124
- CoLink$1,048
- InFrame Implant$970
- PECA Bunion Correction System$761
- BioBrace 23mm$591
- TAPESTRY$271
- ANCHORAGE$213
- DynaNail Helix, Washer, 15 mm$193
- Persona$146
- AccuFill$143
- Biovance$137
- Interfyl$137
- INnate Implant$128
- CREED Ortholocent Implants$128
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$123
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$123
How this compares
$17,089 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 29 | $277 |
| Celecoxib | 18 | $179 |
| Methylprednisolone | 24 | $139 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 21 | $126 |
| Meloxicam | 44 | $109 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 25 | $94 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Pittsburgh
- Peter MangonePittsburgh$1.1M
- Lisa Grant-McdonaldPittsburgh$198K
- Patrick BurnsPittsburgh$38K
- Michael SaviskyPittsburgh$16K
- William DecarboBelle Vernon$3.5M
- David PedowitzBryn Mawr$1.6M
- Noman SiddiquiScranton$1.3M
- Stephen BrigidoBethlehem$656K
- Guido LaportaDunmore$625K
- Adam TeichmanAllentown$545K
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.