Lauren Wurster, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1306200613
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 72 payments — averaging $102.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
- Impactortho, Inc.$889
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$790
- Arthrex$640
- Amgen$248
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,81652%
- Food & beverage$3,43847%
- Education$961%
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 | 27 | $2,437 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $1,023 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 4 | $889 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $790 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $640 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 5 | $248 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $211 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $193 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $150 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $149 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $148 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $139 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $106 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $84 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $65 |
| Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 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.
- HemiCAP$790
- TrueLok Ring Fixation System$771
- TL-HEX$771
- VARIAX$616
- PROstep$539
- CITREFIX$288
- NUZYRA$211
- GALAXY Fixation$168
- PROSTEP MICA$149
- Senza$149
- KRYSTEXXA$125
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$123
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$123
- PRIMATRIX$123
- IDRT$123
- FLOWABLE$123
- Cadence$121
- PuraPly$102
How this compares
$7,349 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Terbinafine Hcl | 58 | $863 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $369 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $227 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 25 | $182 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 27 | $174 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 11 | $139 |
| Meloxicam | 35 | $84 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $57 |
| Prednisone | 16 | $23 |
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.