Alan Sotelo
Primary Podiatric Medicine · Durham, NCNPI 1306256599
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 24 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $335 and has fallen 65.7% since, to $115 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for primary podiatric medicine clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $1,305.
Across 24 payments — averaging $50.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$271
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$226
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$200
- Linvatec Corporation$115
- TEI Medical Inc.$84
- Paragon 28, Inc.$71
- plus $247 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,214100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 5 | $271 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $226 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $200 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $115 |
| TEI Medical Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $37 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $27 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 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.
How this compares
$1,214 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 64 primary podiatric medicine providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 25 | $296 |
| Mupirocin | 41 | $289 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 19 | $259 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 24 | $229 |
| Meloxicam | 27 | $164 |
| Gabapentin | 29 | $107 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other primary podiatric medicine in Durham
- John LordDurham$5K
- Gary LiaoDurham$2K
- Melissa HillDurham$388
- Ashma DavidsonStatesville$32K
- Joseph KiblerSupply$23K
- Jacob PaniciCary$13K
- Ythan WebsterNew Bern$10K
- Jon StancilGreenville$9K
- Kevin McDonaldConcord$8K
- Eric WardMatthews$7K
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.