Lauren Eller, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Portland, ORNPI 1033642335
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,271 of the $2,664 with a category attached, or 85.2%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $596, 6.9 times the $86 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in OR, where the typical reported total is $2,664.
Across 66 payments — averaging $40.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$482
- Steelhead Surgical Inc$393
- Smith+Nephew$299
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$273
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$272
- Johnson & Johnson$139
- plus $806 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,27185%
- Education$39315%
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 | 7 | $482 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 1 | $393 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $299 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 10 | $273 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 5 | $272 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $139 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $137 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $81 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $71 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $66 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $35 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Amgen | 1 | $25 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Senza$137
- Actishield$137
- Viaflow$137
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$137
- Lapiplasty System$130
- PROPHECY$103
How this compares
$2,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 113 foot & ankle surgery providers in Oregon.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 62 | $1,561 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 40 | $761 |
| Cephalexin | 21 | $153 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $57 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Portland
- Natalie MesnierPortland$339K
- Scott BoyntonPortland$120K
- Andrew ShinabargerPortland$85K
- Kevin DriscollPortland$21K
- John MassoudPortland$14K
- Kenneth HegewaldPortland$11K
- Steven LaxsonPortland$11K
- Lara AtwaterPortland$10K
- Denny lePortland$9K
- Andrew HuPortland$7K
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.