Joshua Coger
Podiatrist · Louisville, KYNPI 1043629439
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (50.7%), travel and lodging and royalties or licence payments — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Vilex LLC accounts for 88.7% of it on its own, with 35 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $49,072, more than ten times the $3,169 reported in 2019. Among podiatrist clinicians in KY 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 420 payments — averaging $315.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vilex LLC$117K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Stryker$3K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$822
- plus $5K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$21,08516%
- Consulting fees$67,06851%
- Speaking & faculty fees$790%
- Travel & lodging$33,02425%
- Food & beverage$9,9167%
- Education$1,2001%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vilex LLC | 98 | $117,457 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $3,080 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 59 | $2,799 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 6 | $1,789 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 15 | $1,230 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 14 | $822 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 16 | $762 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 40 | $701 |
| Smith+Nephew | 67 | $681 |
| Misonix Inc | 30 | $485 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 15 | $270 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $251 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 15 | $242 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 4 | $229 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $190 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $170 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| Celularity Inc. | 4 | $160 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $146 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $135 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $133 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 4 | $51 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $46 |
| Axogen | 1 | $40 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $35 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- HINTERMANN$56,952
- Artemis$48,116
- DYNEX$8,695
- EXTERNAL FIXATION$3,080
- RD MIS Distal Bunion$1,030
- TL-HEX$869
- TrueLok Ring Fixation System$869
- REDEMPTION$500
- INFINITY$443
- VARIAX$414
- PROPHECY$414
- FUZE$400
- INTEGRA$369
- TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$251
- CADENCE ANKLE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM$232
- Puraply Antimicrobial$228
- Apligraf$173
- CellerateRx$169
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$168
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$168
How this compares
$132,372 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 54 podiatrist providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 22 | $588 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 58 | $465 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 43 | $384 |
| Meloxicam | 107 | $345 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 43 | $319 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 32 | $289 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 29 | $259 |
| Ketoconazole | 20 | $225 |
| Gabapentin | 39 | $214 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $200 |
| Ibuprofen | 21 | $128 |
| Mupirocin | 29 | $114 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 23 | $106 |
| Levofloxacin | 15 | $93 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 11 | $81 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Louisville
- Thomas ChildressLouisville$283K
- Zachery WeyandtLouisville$37K
- Andrew BouwkampLouisville$19K
- Braxton RiderLouisville$10K
- Ryan SherryLouisville$10K
- Walter PayneLouisville$10K
- Karim AshamLouisville$7K
- Peter CunninghamLouisville$6K
- Jeffrey KriegelLouisville$570
- Chirag PatelLouisville$179
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.