Michael Vanpelt, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1174749915
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 112 payments — averaging $93.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pylant Medical$3K
- Synthes GmbH$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$518
- Kerecis Limited$327
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$297
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,00010%
- Travel & lodging$1,28312%
- Food & beverage$5,60154%
- Education$2,53924%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pylant Medical | 10 | $2,662 |
| Synthes GmbH | 4 | $2,426 |
| Stryker | 38 | $1,959 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $518 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $327 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 4 | $297 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $279 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $227 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $174 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $153 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $135 |
| Vertex | 1 | $125 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $116 |
| Amgen | 6 | $109 |
| Next Science LLC | 3 | $105 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $94 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $81 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 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.
- STAR$714
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$553
- INTEGRA$522
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$184
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$184
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$174
- PRIMATRIX$174
- AXS INFINITY LS$166
- EVOS$159
- BlastX$153
- Xperience$153
- HAMMERLOCK$150
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$150
- CERAMENT G$150
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$143
- Lapiplasty System$136
- JOURNAVX$125
- Physio-Stim$123
- TMC NANOPLASTY SYSTEM$121
- Kimyrsa$116
How this compares
$10,423 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 684 foot & ankle surgery providers in Texas.
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 | 24 | $562 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 41 | $353 |
| Methocarbamol | 53 | $314 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 14 | $306 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 40 | $300 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 53 | $237 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 21 | $187 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $181 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $169 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 14 | $138 |
| Mupirocin | 11 | $110 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $109 |
| Meloxicam | 39 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Dallas
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Paul KimDallas$972K
- John EarlyDallas$572K
- John NoackDallas$389K
- Dane WukichDallas$273K
- Charles CookDallas$192K
- George LiuDallas$130K
- Trapper LalliDallas$92K
- Veerabhadra ReddyDallas$59K
- Richard PollakSan Antonio$6.1M
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.