Joel Kelly, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Apex, NCNPI 1669632881
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $14,009 of the $15,680 with a category attached, or 89.3%. It is spread thinly across 46 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,848 and has fallen 67.4% since, to $1,256 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in NC 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 429 payments — averaging $36.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$3K
- Convatec Inc.$3K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Epsfl, LLC$2K
- Next Science LLC$626
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$380
- plus $4K from 40 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$921%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1121%
- Travel & lodging$1,2168%
- Food & beverage$14,00989%
- Entertainment$2512%
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.
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.
- InnovaMatrix AC$1,714
- GRAFIX PL$618
- Stravix$258
- SurgX$150
- Xperience$150
- BlastX$150
- Grafix$136
- GrafixPL$136
- BioV$134
- CoLink$134
- Reference Toe System$134
- Vitrium$134
- KRYSTEXXA$124
- Stratum Foot Plating System$122
- Grafix XC$122
- STRAVIX PL$122
- Diamondback Peripheral$120
- Apligraf$112
- Dermagraft$112
- Puraply/Affinity/NuTech$112
How this compares
$15,680 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 196 foot & ankle surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 | 30 | $700 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 37 | $366 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $190 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 19 | $183 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $113 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 19 | $93 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Apex
- Robert OlsonGastonia$473K
- Austin MatthewsLumberton$279K
- Matthew DzurikWilmington$142K
- Kristen McGinnessFayetteville$123K
- William RespessGreenville$79K
- Brian FutrellCary$71K
- Kenneth BloomMooresville$53K
- Stephen HeislerChapel Hill$49K
- Benjamin UmbelMorganton$37K
- Andrew HanselmanWake Forest$30K
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.