Karim Asham
Podiatrist · Louisville, KYNPI 1285318899
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,869 of the $7,300 with a category attached, or 80.4%. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,604, 5.2 times the $880 reported in 2023.
Across 81 payments — averaging $90.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vilex LLC$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$913
- Johnson & Johnson$414
- Inari Medical, Inc.$357
- Kerecis Limited$300
- plus $3K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,43120%
- Food & beverage$5,86980%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vilex LLC | 6 | $1,431 |
| Stryker | 17 | $1,274 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 12 | $913 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $414 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $357 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $300 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 5 | $299 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $286 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $251 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $206 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $177 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $161 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $149 |
| Vertex | 2 | $148 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $139 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $134 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 3 | $110 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $101 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $85 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- INTEGRA$1,549
- Artemis$1,208
- ALLOFIBER$855
- Kerecis SurgiClose$585
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$516
- PRIMATRIX$516
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$357
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$357
- Restrata Wound Matrix$282
- TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$251
- NA$240
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$206
- Kerecis GraftGuide$146
- VALOR$134
- INBONE$134
- PROPHECY$134
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$134
- GRAFIX PL$130
- Oasis$130
- Stravix$130
How this compares
$7,300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 54 podiatrist providers in Kentucky.
Other podiatrist in Louisville
- Thomas ChildressLouisville$283K
- Joshua CogerLouisville$132K
- Zachery WeyandtLouisville$37K
- Andrew BouwkampLouisville$19K
- Braxton RiderLouisville$10K
- Ryan SherryLouisville$10K
- Walter PayneLouisville$10K
- 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.