Nicole Mehr
Podiatrist · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1912428574
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,482 of the $10,282 with a category attached, or 63.0%. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.5%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,113 and has fallen 92.7% since, to $227 in 2024. Among podiatrist clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 130 payments — averaging $79.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$1K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$801
- Organogenesis Inc.$737
- plus $3K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,34032%
- Food & beverage$6,48263%
- Education$4604%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 18 | $2,004 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 24 | $1,937 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $1,087 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 11 | $1,017 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $801 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 21 | $737 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 5 | $577 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $460 |
| Bioventus LLC | 8 | $400 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $193 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 10 | $182 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $110 |
| Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC | 1 | $108 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $90 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $67 |
| Celularity Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Axogen | 2 | $41 |
| GSK | 2 | $38 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $25 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $22 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 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.
- Versajet$1,234
- Lapiplasty System$1,058
- Grafix$896
- PICO$896
- RENASYS TOUCH$896
- STAR$382
- Apligraf$338
- SALVATION$320
- TrueLok$300
- Stravix$284
- GRAFIX PL$284
- ANCHORAGE$240
- HOFFMANN$240
- GALAXY Fixation$229
- G-Beam Fusion Beaming System$229
- TL-HEX$229
- TrueLok Ring Fixation System$229
- XCaliber Articulated Ankle Fixator$229
- PROstep$169
- TL-HEX TRUELOK HEXAPOD SYSTEM$151
How this compares
$10,282 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 721 podiatrist providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 16 | $876 |
| Clotrimazole | 18 | $273 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 13 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Santa Barbara
- Shannon RushPleasanton$1.9M
- Babak BaravarianSanta Monica$1.1M
- Robert KleimanCalexico$913K
- Bruce LawrenceOceanside$810K
- David ArmstrongLos Angeles$695K
- Philip WrotslavskyPoway$269K
- Travis WestermeyerEncinitas$158K
- Adrienne EstesPomona$129K
- Ronald LiebermanEncinitas$109K
- Matthew DoyleMountain View$92K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.