Alan Sue, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Berkeley, CANPI 1013235357
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (59.1%), education and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Vilex LLC accounts for 62.2% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 70 payments — averaging $558.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vilex LLC$24K
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$7K
- Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- Medartis Inc.$1K
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$23,11059%
- Consulting fees$4,26311%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,5757%
- Travel & lodging$1250%
- Food & beverage$3,0518%
- Education$5,95515%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vilex LLC | 13 | $24,310 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 15 | $6,834 |
| Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC | 5 | $3,117 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 12 | $1,269 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $1,203 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $1,167 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $233 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $190 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $136 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $107 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $76 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| International Life Sciences | 1 | $35 |
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.
- ALPHALOK Ankle Fusion - R&D$11,883
- ALPHALOK$11,149
- Medical Implant$1,488
- APTUS$1,167
- RD Ankle Fx$600
- DYNEX$600
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$496
- Actishield$181
- ANCHORAGE$175
- SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$137
- CADENCE ANKLE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM$137
- HALLU-LOCK$137
- PANTA NAIL$137
- TOTAL FOOT SYSTEM$137
- HAMMERLOCK$136
- NUZYRA$125
- PuraPly$125
- FUSEFORCE$110
- Stratum Foot Plating System$107
- ORTHOLOC$100
How this compares
$39,078 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,126 foot & ankle surgery providers in California.
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.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Berkeley
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.