Howard Kimmel, DPM
Podiatrist · Brookpark, OHNPI 1124055918
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $44,615 of the $66,910 with a category attached, or 66.7%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 96.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $28,597 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $146 in 2025. Among podiatrist clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 169 payments — averaging $395.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$64K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$594
- Medtronic$322
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$304
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$244
- Stryker$222
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,3607%
- Speaking & faculty fees$44,61567%
- Travel & lodging$12,56819%
- Food & beverage$5,3678%
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 | 137 | $64,204 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $594 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $322 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $304 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $244 |
| Stryker | 2 | $222 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 3 | $187 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 2 | $169 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $151 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $146 |
| Amgen | 2 | $128 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $55 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
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.
- VERSAJET II$23,683
- Grafix$20,538
- GRAFIX PL$20,538
- Stravix$18,196
- Versajet$17,146
- STRAVIX PL$10,540
- Grafix XC$7,308
- PICO$500
- Lapiplasty System$487
- INTEGRA$450
- PRIMATRIX$282
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$282
- Novosorb BTM$146
- Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate System$144
- ANCHORAGE$142
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$132
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$132
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$132
- KRYSTEXXA$115
How this compares
$66,910 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 397 podiatrist providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 19 | $377 |
| Pregabalin | 21 | $369 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 24 | $184 |
| Cephalexin | 32 | $125 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 23 | $85 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $83 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 13 | $62 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 15 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Brookpark
- Mark HardyAvon$2.1M
- Lawrence DidomenicoBoardman$1.1M
- Ralph NapolitanoNew Albany$494K
- Thomas GronerNiles$193K
- Michael MaierCleveland$120K
- Eric StortsLondon$101K
- Daniel LoganGahanna$83K
- James HayesCleveland$31K
- Nathan RossiCleveland$31K
- Macaira DymentPowell$28K
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.