Paul Betschart, DPM
Podiatrist · Danbury, CTNPI 1639270044
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,957 of the $9,705 with a category attached, or 71.7%. Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. accounts for 85.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,946, more than ten times the $271 reported in 2019. Among podiatrist clinicians in CT 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 53 payments — averaging $183.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$8K
- Smith+Nephew$495
- Organogenesis Inc.$295
- Stryker$201
- Averitas Pharma Inc.$145
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$110
- plus $205 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,95772%
- Food & beverage$2,65527%
- Gifts$941%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 20 | $8,254 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $495 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 7 | $295 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 6 | $201 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 4 | $145 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $110 |
| Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $76 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $38 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$5,804
- Lapiplasty System$2,420
- Stravix$264
- Grafix$142
- Oasis$142
- GRAFIX PL$122
- Qutenza$111
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$110
How this compares
$9,705 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 119 podiatrist providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| QutenzaCapsaicin/Skin Cleanser | 14 | $50,686 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 118 | $1,365 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $920 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $270 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 12 | $263 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 18 | $177 |
| Cefadroxil | 24 | $167 |
| Pregabalin | 18 | $105 |
| Meloxicam | 19 | $58 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| GRT US Holding, Inc.Qutenza | $22 | $50,68614 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 119 podiatrist providers in Connecticut.
Other podiatrist in Danbury
- Christian DavisDanbury$1K
- Paul DobiesDanbury$788
- Peter BlumeNew Haven$481K
- Robert DavisBridgeport$427K
- David NovickiMilford$67K
- Shane ReynoldsNorwalk$14K
- Eric LevineNorwich$12K
- Michael FeinBethel$9K
- Tehreem SajjadNew Britain$9K
- Christopher YardanWallingford$8K
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.