Brian Houng, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Vancouver, WANPI 1174028906
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (36.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Paragon 28, Inc. at 27.0% of the total.
Across 47 payments — averaging $139.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paragon 28, Inc.$2K
- Steelhead Surgical Inc$1K
- CDC Medical LLC$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Medline Industries LP$931
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$113
- plus $104 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,83528%
- Food & beverage$2,29335%
- Education$2,40037%
- Gifts$461%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 16 | $1,775 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 3 | $1,252 |
| CDC Medical LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Stryker | 14 | $1,197 |
| Medline Industries LP | 9 | $931 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Left Coast Surgical Inc | 1 | $41 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 1 | $24 |
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.
- Medline Unite Foot Plating System$869
- Portfolio$768
- Product Portfolio$581
- INFINITY$543
- INBONE$277
- INCOMPASS TOTAL ANKLE SYSTEM$168
- Integrity implant$113
- TACTOSET$113
How this compares
$6,573 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 203 foot & ankle surgery providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 29 | $782 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 24 | $495 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 67 | $471 |
| Cephalexin | 41 | $306 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 30 | $151 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $149 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 17 | $120 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Vancouver
- Christopher LotufoVancouver$28K
- Tyler BelnapVancouver$19K
- Jeffery LinscheidVancouver$6K
- Jeffrey ChristensenEverett$828K
- David DalstromSeattle$491K
- Richard LamourOlympia$87K
- Adam AlbabaSeattle$46K
- Stephen BenirschkeSeattle$45K
- Craig CliffordFederal Way$44K
- Shawn KhademiRenton$43K
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.