Jose Ponce
Podiatrist · Long Beach, CANPI 1922363431
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 472 payments — averaging $51.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$6K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$5K
- Stryker$4K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- plus $3K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,95229%
- Food & beverage$15,88865%
- Education$1,4676%
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 | 182 | $6,021 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 36 | $4,994 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 54 | $4,360 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 60 | $2,285 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 25 | $1,832 |
| Arthrex | 6 | $1,547 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 10 | $709 |
| Bioventus LLC | 10 | $385 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 14 | $314 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 11 | $257 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 7 | $172 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $161 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $154 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $142 |
| Convatec Inc. | 5 | $111 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $87 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $86 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Misonix Inc | 3 | $67 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $54 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Medline Industries LP | 3 | $39 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $35 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $35 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $21 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Micromed Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Stimlabs LLC | 1 | $15 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$24,307 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 721 podiatrist providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 512 | $12,662 |
| Clotrimazole | 298 | $11,338 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 36 | $1,323 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 130 | $884 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 43 | $656 |
| Ciclopirox | 32 | $399 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 58 | $279 |
| Mupirocin | 39 | $204 |
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 19 | $180 |
| Cephalexin | 31 | $79 |
| Levofloxacin | 13 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Long Beach
- Kazuto AugustusLong Beach$65K
- Fardin HakakianTarzana$2.8M
- David GuzmanNapa$2.1M
- Shannon RushPleasanton$1.9M
- Babak BaravarianSanta Monica$1.6M
- David ArmstrongLos Angeles$1.4M
- Dean VayserCarlsbad$1.2M
- Robert KleimanCalexico$913K
- Bruce LawrenceOceanside$810K
- Shawn CazzellFresno$788K
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.