David Ellenbogen, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1831222090
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (40.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Kerecis Limited accounts for 64.0% of it on its own, with 36 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,344 and has fallen 72.1% since, to $2,052 in 2025.
Across 94 payments — averaging $157.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kerecis Limited$10K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$883
- Epsfl, LLC$194
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$193
- plus $1K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,05041%
- Travel & lodging$3,03120%
- Food & beverage$4,00227%
- Education$1,75212%
- Entertainment$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kerecis Limited | 12 | $9,503 |
| Smith+Nephew | 22 | $1,507 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,251 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 2 | $883 |
| Epsfl, LLC | 2 | $194 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $193 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Vaporox, Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $127 |
| Amgen | 1 | $124 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $82 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $73 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Vertex | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$28,046
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$11,981
- Kerecis SurgiClose$4,146
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$1,807
- Kerecis GraftGuide$1,037
- Stravix$854
- HOFFMANN$545
- Grafix$500
- GrafixPL$500
- SALVATION$359
- Lapiplasty System$193
- Zynrelef$167
- VHT-200 Wound Treatment System$151
- GRAFIX PL$132
- Versajet$125
- KRYSTEXXA$124
- Grafix PL PRIME$105
- NA$103
How this compares
$14,847 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 196 foot & ankle surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 16 | $146 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Charlotte
- Sagar ChawlaCharlotte$27K
- Robert OlsonGastonia$473K
- Austin MatthewsLumberton$279K
- Matthew DzurikWilmington$142K
- Kristen McGinnessFayetteville$123K
- William RespessGreenville$79K
- Brian FutrellCary$71K
- Kenneth BloomMooresville$53K
- Stephen HeislerChapel Hill$49K
- Benjamin UmbelMorganton$37K
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.