Has Dustin Grimmett received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,056 in general payments to Dustin Grimmett across 88 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Dustin Grimmett did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Dustin Grimmett come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Dustin Grimmett

Primary Podiatric Medicine · Guntersville, ALNPI 1487098166

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,147 of the $3,056 with a category attached, or 70.3%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Paragon 28, Inc. at 36.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,197 and has fallen 63.7% since, to $434 in 2025.

$3,056in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 88 payments — averaging $34.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
Stryker$509
Kerecis Limited$276
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$238
Smith+Nephew$154
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$138
plus $638 from 15 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$90830%
Food & beverage$2,14770%

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
Paragon 28, Inc.	4	$1,104
Stryker	11	$509
Kerecis Limited	7	$276
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	17	$238
Smith+Nephew	10	$154
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	5	$138
Amgen(2 entities)	8	$118
AbbVie	3	$67
Abbott	3	$64
Prime Surgical, LLC	2	$64
Convatec Inc.	2	$49
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$46
Medtronic	2	$45
Merck	3	$37
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$36
Triad Life Sciences Inc.	2	$26
Axogen	1	$20
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$18
Bioventus LLC	1	$16
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$16
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$15

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

Too few primary podiatric medicine providers in Alabamato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$185,793

Medicare patients

414

Services billed

2,262

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
Diclofenac Sodium	48	$1,355
Ketoconazole	92	$1,246
Fluconazole	33	$1,012
Doxycycline Hyclate	72	$602
Terbinafine Hcl	56	$381
Meloxicam	158	$374
Prednisone	73	$360
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	54	$337
Gabapentin	44	$325
Ciclopirox	11	$245
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	41	$203
SsdSilver Sulfadiazine	14	$143
Silver Sulfadiazine	21	$138
Cephalexin	25	$101
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	21	$86

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other primary podiatric medicine in Guntersville

Travis ZimbelmanMontgomery$1K
Natalie GiammancoCullman$831
John SmithFlorence$559
Tomeko McPhillipsSelma$500
Catherine YackHuntsville$364
Douglas StewartAlexander City$269
La'shonda MooreGreenville$121
Jack MarquisNorthport$82
Brett StarkAuburn$57

See the full list for Alabama →

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.

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