Susan Schneidermesser, DPM
Foot Surgery · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1548330764
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.6%), travel and lodging and other — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. at 47.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,875, 9.1 times the $316 reported in 2019. Among foot surgery clinicians in NY 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 77 payments — averaging $78.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Organogenesis Inc.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$311
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$202
- Paragon 28, Inc.$159
- plus $322 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,56726%
- Food & beverage$3,48158%
- Other$1,00017%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 31 | $2,854 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 20 | $1,125 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $1,075 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $311 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 4 | $202 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $159 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $49 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $33 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Axogen | 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.
- Lapiplasty System$1,416
- Lapiplasty$680
- PROSTEP MICA$307
- EASYFUSE$307
- ALLOWRAP$155
- PROstep$155
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$155
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$152
- CITREFIX$152
- Bun-Yo-Matic$150
- TMC NANOPLASTY SYSTEM$150
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$121
- Qutenza$113
- Stravix$101
- Grafix PL PRIME$101
How this compares
$6,048 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 294 foot surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxepin Hcl | 316 | $41,344 |
| Fluocinonide | 479 | $39,984 |
| Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium | 234 | $18,446 |
| Clotrimazole | 130 | $6,964 |
| Naproxen Sodium | 29 | $2,524 |
| Etodolac | 20 | $2,520 |
| Fluconazole | 16 | $2,196 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 61 | $1,397 |
| Ciclopirox | 35 | $1,286 |
| Ketoconazole | 12 | $319 |
| Mupirocin | 31 | $177 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 13 | $105 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $96 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $89 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 11 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot surgery in Brooklyn
- Lawrence SantiBrooklyn$25K
- Evan BrethBrooklyn$17K
- Ilya ShnitserBrooklyn$11K
- Vincent MelisoBrooklyn$6K
- Irina BelderBrooklyn$5K
- Leon StepenskyBrooklyn$4K
- Nicholas DangeloBrooklyn$4K
- Svetlana LuvishBrooklyn$4K
- Salvatore GaudinoBrooklyn$4K
- Paul LiswoodBrooklyn$4K
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.