Fred Lause
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Mt Sterling, KYNPI 1487703195
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 16 payments — averaging $33.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$184
- Paragon 28, Inc.$148
- KCI USA, Inc.$61
- Stryker$39
- Organogenesis Inc.$28
- Smith+Nephew$22
- plus $53 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$535100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 4 | $184 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 3 | $39 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $17 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $12 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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
$535 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 146 | $3,436 |
| Itraconazole | 35 | $2,910 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 235 | $2,510 |
| Gabapentin | 269 | $1,734 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 19 | $776 |
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 13 | $462 |
| Ciclopirox | 22 | $428 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 24 | $239 |
| Celecoxib | 12 | $145 |
| Meloxicam | 27 | $119 |
| Mupirocin | 19 | $91 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $83 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 15 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Mt Sterling
- William Adams IiPaducah$485K
- Sofie PinneyCynthiana$130K
- Carl KihmLouisville$89K
- Bradford FineLexington$82K
- Nicholas LacoLouisville$60K
- Jay LechnerLouisville$29K
- Russell BakerCarrollton$27K
- William McGloneLouisville$26K
- Timothy FordLouisville$26K
- Garrett WiremanLouisville$26K
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.