Has Gina Mendoza, DPM received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,899 in general payments to Gina Mendoza, DPM across 132 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 Gina Mendoza, DPM 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 Gina Mendoza, DPM 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.

Gina Mendoza, DPM

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Hendersonville, TNNPI 1992805220

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.0% of the total across 132 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 28.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $694 and has fallen 56.7% since, to $301 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $4,185.

$2,899in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $21.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$820
Organogenesis Inc.$782
Stryker$532
Kerecis Limited$397
Johnson & Johnson$70
Amgen$65
plus $232 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1164%
Food & beverage$2,78296%

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
Smith+Nephew	77	$820
Organogenesis Inc.	21	$782
Stryker(2 entities)	6	$532
Kerecis Limited	7	$397
Johnson & Johnson	3	$70
Amgen	4	$65
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$46
Zimmer Biomet	2	$36
Paragon 28, Inc.	2	$30
Access Pro Medical, LLC	1	$27
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	3	$26
Triad Life Sciences Inc.	1	$23
Osiris Therapeutics Inc.	1	$21
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$13
AbbVie	1	$12

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

$2,899 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 145 foot & ankle surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$113,573

Medicare patients

321

Services billed

2,868

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 Monohydrate	59	$873
Ketoconazole	21	$752
Pregabalin	15	$601
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	30	$500
Terbinafine Hcl	40	$371
Clotrimazole	15	$292
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	35	$283
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	44	$229
Cephalexin	27	$216
Betamethasone Dipropionate	11	$210
Gabapentin	18	$154
Methylprednisolone	13	$116
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	17	$109
Meloxicam	38	$76

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Hendersonville

Bryan LapinskiHendersonville$9K
Daniel MendozaHendersonville$7K
Sebastien DemoinyMorristown$210K
Robert ThompsonMurfreesboro$205K
Bhekumuzi KhumaloUnion City$201K
Walter ButlerMemphis$191K
Chad WebsterCordova$185K
Christian SmithCordova$153K
Frank OgnibeneMemphis$148K
Garnett MurphyGermantown$130K

See the full list for Tennessee →

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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