Laura Heath, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1447509583
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 130 payments — averaging $62.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Novastep Inc.$2K
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$347
- Nevro Corp.$252
- Encore Medical, LP$182
- Abbott$132
- plus $866 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,80735%
- Food & beverage$5,29465%
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(2 entities) | 51 | $4,601 |
| Novastep Inc. | 12 | $1,721 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 3 | $347 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $252 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $182 |
| Abbott | 5 | $132 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 18 | $125 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $104 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $84 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $71 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $71 |
| Vertex | 2 | $60 |
| Aap Implants Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $41 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $22 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $19 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 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.
- PECA Bunion Correction System$1,348
- PRIME SERIES$660
- VARIAX$538
- HemiCAP MTP Resurfacing$338
- ALLOWRAP$332
- ADAPT$193
- SONICANCHOR$193
- ANCHORAGE$163
- PROLAYER$153
- BIOFOAM$144
- AXSOS$139
- Senza$137
- STAR$125
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$104
- CITREFIX$104
How this compares
$8,101 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 291 foot & ankle surgery providers in Arizona.
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 | 96 | $2,805 |
| Gabapentin | 85 | $1,267 |
| Pramipexole DihydrochloridePramipexole Di-Hcl | 45 | $674 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 26 | $578 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 38 | $482 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 24 | $320 |
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 22 | $312 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 29 | $276 |
| Silver Sulfadiazine | 22 | $267 |
| Cephalexin | 28 | $113 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 23 | $110 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 13 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Phoenix
- Ryan ScottPhoenix$1.1M
- Jaminelli BanksPhoenix$974K
- Jeffrey HolmesPhoenix$573K
- Melissa GalliPhoenix$331K
- Zachary FlynnPhoenix$239K
- David JaffePhoenix$111K
- Kyle VaughnPhoenix$110K
- Jason KaycePhoenix$57K
- Devin BlandPhoenix$49K
- Braden BoyerPhoenix$32K
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.