Howard Gale, DPM
Podiatrist · Statesboro, GANPI 1881600591
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,644 of the $3,409 with a category attached, or 77.6%. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 77 payments — averaging $44.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$624
- Arthrex$468
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$418
- AbbVie$217
- Vilex LLC$211
- Triad Life Sciences Inc.$201
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$76522%
- Food & beverage$2,64478%
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 | 16 | $624 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $468 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $418 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $217 |
| Vilex LLC | 1 | $211 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 2 | $201 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $185 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 7 | $123 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $91 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $87 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $81 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $66 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $64 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $32 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $21 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Lapiplasty System$340
- GRAFIX PL$271
- DYNEX$211
- InnovaMatrix AC$181
- STRAVIX PL$149
How this compares
$3,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 177 podiatrist providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Terbinafine Hcl | 102 | $1,391 |
| Ketoconazole | 62 | $998 |
| Gabapentin | 60 | $520 |
| Pregabalin | 38 | $498 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 44 | $475 |
| Mupirocin | 46 | $394 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 34 | $342 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 17 | $325 |
| Fluconazole | 18 | $309 |
| Hydrocortisone | 44 | $266 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 43 | $215 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 27 | $192 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 12 | $172 |
| Ibuprofen | 17 | $161 |
| Ropinirole Hcl | 25 | $153 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Statesboro
- Allen RaphaelSmyrna$324K
- Ira KrausFort Oglethorpe$223K
- Stephen BarrettMarietta$82K
- Mohammad SharifAtlanta$79K
- Craig CamastaAtlanta$49K
- Ryan FitzgeraldCanton$43K
- Margo JimenezAtlanta$19K
- Samantha MinerSmyrna$17K
- Robson SpinolaJesup$15K
- Christopher CorwinJohns Creek$15K
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.