Mitch Hulbert, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Sheboygan, WINPI 1518307248
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $68,038 of the $96,276 with a category attached, or 70.7%. Stryker accounts for 85.0% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $48,345 and has fallen 75.2% since, to $12,009 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 240 payments — averaging $401.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$82K
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$9K
- Medshape, Inc.$4K
- Trilliant Surgical LLC.$541
- Surgenex LLC$305
- Smith+Nephew$219
- plus $914 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$68,03871%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,9253%
- Travel & lodging$17,17618%
- Food & beverage$8,1378%
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) | 205 | $81,864 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $8,693 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 6 | $3,741 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 6 | $541 |
| Surgenex LLC | 2 | $305 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $219 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $171 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Amgen | 1 | $125 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $61 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $22 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $15 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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.
- PROstep$69,562
- PROSTEP MICA$15,840
- PROPHECY$11,934
- DynaClip Bone Fixation System, Quattro, 22mm x 20mm x 20mm$3,637
- HOFFMANN$2,379
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$1,040
- PULSE POINT$1,040
- STAR$856
- FUSEFORCE$780
- EASYFUSE$780
- VARIAX$436
- INFINITY$384
- CITREFIX$308
- SurGraft$305
- SurMatrix$305
- ArdeoGraft$305
- PelloGraft$305
- RenoGraft$305
- Arsenal Sinus Support Plate$292
- ANCHORAGE$270
How this compares
$96,276 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 105 foot & ankle surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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 | 87 | $2,650 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 61 | $1,978 |
| Nitro-BidNitroglycerin | 19 | $1,186 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 57 | $930 |
| Lidocaine | 11 | $756 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $668 |
| Mupirocin | 52 | $551 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 46 | $389 |
| Cephalexin | 30 | $308 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 14 | $251 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 37 | $209 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $197 |
| Allopurinol | 24 | $163 |
| Meloxicam | 31 | $74 |
| Prednisone | 17 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Sheboygan
- Mitchell ThompsonSheboygan$4K
- Britney WenigSheboygan$2K
- James WhelanBeloit$51K
- Nikita GramaStevens Point$31K
- Keith AndersonHayward$31K
- Jay ChristensenAppleton$26K
- Jason BurkleMadison$26K
- Hui ZhangOak Creek$25K
- James TorhorstWaupaca$25K
- Todd DerksenAppleton$23K
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.