John Codwell, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1649260092
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 94 payments — averaging $38.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lifenet Health$1K
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$439
- Smith+Nephew$421
- Nevro Corp.$296
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$246
- Organogenesis Inc.$159
- plus $850 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,00728%
- Food & beverage$2,61372%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lifenet Health | 6 | $1,209 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 18 | $439 |
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $421 |
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $296 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $246 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 7 | $159 |
| Amgen | 4 | $157 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $157 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $112 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 5 | $83 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $45 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $44 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 2 | $36 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $25 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $21 |
| CPM Medical Consultants, LLC | 2 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$1,100
- NUZYRA$250
- Venclose Maven Catheter$219
- Santyl$120
- REGRANEX$120
- Oasis$120
- Stravix$107
- Grafix$107
- STRAVIX PL$107
- GRAFIX PL$107
How this compares
$3,619 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 684 foot & ankle surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Flucytosine | 24 | $56,906 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,147 | $27,943 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 885 | $13,756 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 20 | $9,281 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 175 | $6,865 |
| Ibuprofen | 898 | $5,244 |
| Pregabalin | 286 | $5,172 |
| Lidocaine | 77 | $3,416 |
| Gabapentin | 329 | $3,069 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 130 | $2,922 |
| Naproxen | 186 | $1,831 |
| Meloxicam | 684 | $1,502 |
| Nystatin | 126 | $1,452 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 22 | $1,371 |
| Ciclopirox | 25 | $1,164 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Houston
- Kevin VarnerHouston$1.1M
- Sherman NaglerHouston$602K
- Abdul NurudeenHouston$404K
- Orlando RiveraHouston$384K
- Brian LepowHouston$311K
- William GranberryHouston$155K
- Yueh LeeHouston$95K
- Julie LesterHouston$94K
- Jason AhueroHouston$76K
- Nathaniel AlabiHouston$71K
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.