RxDoctor Payments Data

Stephen Soondar

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Media, PANPI 1598937070

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,137 of the $18,151 with a category attached, or 61.4%. It is spread thinly across 43 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.1%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,883 and has fallen 80.8% since, to $1,130 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.

$18,151in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 172 payments — averaging $105.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$4K
  • Stryker$2K
  • Intelivation Technologies, LLC$2K
  • Smith+Nephew$1K
  • Cerapedics Inc.$995
  • Kerecis Limited$879
  • plus $7K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,85016%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,40619%
  • Travel & lodging$6073%
  • Food & beverage$11,13761%
  • Education$380%
  • Entertainment$1131%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$18,151 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 575 foot & ankle surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$582,943
Medicare patients
547
Services billed
6,963

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Nitro-BidNitroglycerin13$1,371
Methylprednisolone75$444
Naproxen54$375
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav36$351
Ketoconazole14$284
Ibuprofen31$134
Clindamycin Hcl13$59

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Media

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Where these figures come from

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