Eric Gustafson, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1316470255
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.3%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 34 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 36.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $7,497 and has fallen 61.5% since, to $2,885 in 2025.
Across 328 payments — averaging $59.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$7K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$4K
- Medline Industries LP$3K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Blue Surgical LLC$627
- Organogenesis Inc.$336
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,69024%
- Food & beverage$11,18357%
- Education$3,60018%
- Gifts$460%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 125 | $7,180 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 5 | $3,621 |
| Medline Industries LP | 18 | $3,099 |
| Smith+Nephew | 89 | $1,590 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 2 | $627 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 13 | $336 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $249 |
| Abbott | 1 | $240 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 6 | $213 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 4 | $205 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $200 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $195 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $187 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 5 | $182 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $179 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $152 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $151 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $132 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $129 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $31 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 2 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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$6,867
- Medline Unite Foot Plating System$1,009
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$844
- PRIME SERIES$844
- PROPHECY$710
- Grafix$410
- Stravix$410
- INTEGRA$400
- ANCHORAGE$374
- VARIAX$315
- ALLOFIBER$281
- GRAFIX PL$272
- ESPRIT$240
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$163
- CellerateRx$156
- Oasis$148
- STRAVIX PL$147
- OASIS MICRO$147
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$147
- NEOX$138
How this compares
$19,519 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 141 foot & ankle surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 14 | $438 |
| Ciclopirox | 16 | $314 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 19 | $230 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 12 | $200 |
| Methylprednisolone | 20 | $93 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 12 | $71 |
| Silver Sulfadiazine | 17 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Louisville
- Carl KihmLouisville$89K
- Nicholas LacoLouisville$60K
- Jay LechnerLouisville$29K
- William McGloneLouisville$26K
- Timothy FordLouisville$26K
- Garrett WiremanLouisville$26K
- Jonathan TowarnickiLouisville$22K
- Zachary OgdenLouisville$22K
- Nicholas VogelsangLouisville$18K
- Jordan VogtLouisville$12K
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.