RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Reese, DPM

Podiatrist · West Des Moines, IANPI 1003346107

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.2%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,690 and has fallen 72.3% since, to $1,020 in 2025. Among podiatrist clinicians in IA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$13,544in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 193 payments — averaging $70.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$3K
  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Ortho Solutions Inc$1K
  • Wardlow Enterprises$1K
  • Biogennix, LLC$1K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$970
  • plus $4K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8406%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,0007%
  • Travel & lodging$2,23917%
  • Food & beverage$8,07760%
  • Education$1,38710%

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

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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.

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

$13,544 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 94 podiatrist providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$137,255
Medicare patients
397
Services billed
2,765

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen75$828
Ciclopirox19$733
Cephalexin60$387
Meloxicam166$362
Gabapentin39$291
Methylprednisolone36$284
Doxycycline Monohydrate28$212
Nabumetone21$176
Tramadol Hcl15$29

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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