Joshua Ouellette
Podiatry · West Haven, CTNPI 1760944136
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,188 of the $1,749 with a category attached, or 67.9%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 49.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,183 and has fallen 81.4% since, to $220 in 2025. Among podiatry clinicians in CT 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 24 payments — averaging $72.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$867
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$220
- Convatec Inc.$121
- Hydrofera LLC$109
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$89
- Smith+Nephew$74
- plus $270 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$56132%
- Food & beverage$1,18868%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 5 | $867 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $220 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $121 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 2 | $109 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $89 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $74 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $72 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Vertex | 1 | $46 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $32 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
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.
- PROstep$671
How this compares
$1,749 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 26 podiatry providers in Connecticut.
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 | 21 | $750 |
| Ciclopirox | 11 | $329 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 11 | $325 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 27 | $176 |
| Cephalexin | 26 | $131 |
| Mupirocin | 18 | $114 |
| Prednisone | 13 | $29 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatry in West Haven
- Steven SilversteinNew Haven$0
- Thomas LapointeBerlin$0
- Michael CiceroMiddletown$0
- Bruce BackerOrange$0
- Andrew BerlinerClinton$0
- Jose CastiblancoEast Hartford$0
- Christina UrbanoMiddletown$0
- Edward GensickiHamden$0
- So WongCheshire$0
- Tetiana BazarkoWaterbury$0
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.