Gage Caudell
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1013188291
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 40.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $12,173 and has fallen 62.9% since, to $4,516 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in IN 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.
Across 63 payments — averaging $747.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$19K
- Synthes GmbH$11K
- Arthrex$7K
- Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$4K
- Abiomed$139
- plus $147 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,60148%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,50022%
- Travel & lodging$7,07515%
- Food & beverage$1,4803%
- Education$5,46012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 14 | $19,289 |
| Synthes GmbH | 20 | $10,750 |
| Arthrex | 6 | $7,149 |
| Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC | 8 | $5,494 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $4,148 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $139 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $82 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $45 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
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.
- EXPert Nail$18,600
- Impella$139
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$122
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$122
- ViviGen$122
- CANNULATED SCREWS$122
How this compares
$47,117 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 212 foot & ankle surgery providers in Indiana.
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 Hyclate | 21 | $144 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Fort Wayne
- Steven DouthettFort Wayne$153K
- Kristin Ruth ToliverFort Wayne$11K
- Steven HerbstMuncie$1.6M
- Douglas BlacklidgeKokomo$689K
- Patrick DeheerIndianapolis$493K
- Scott NevilleMooresville$353K
- Travis MontgomeryWestfield$345K
- Robert Clemency IiiSchererville$215K
- William AdamsGreenfield$178K
- Christopher WintersCarmel$152K
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.