Paul Porter, MD
Otolaryngology · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1114284536
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,781 of the $5,751 with a category attached, or 83.1%. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. accounts for 76.8% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 150 payments — averaging $38.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$4K
- Sanofi$364
- Stryker$183
- Aerin Medical Inc.$99
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$84
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$73
- plus $530 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$93316%
- Food & beverage$4,78183%
- Other$381%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 90 | $4,419 |
| Sanofi | 17 | $364 |
| Stryker | 3 | $183 |
| Aerin Medical Inc. | 3 | $99 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $84 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 5 | $73 |
| Acclarent, Inc | 2 | $64 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 3 | $45 |
| GSK | 3 | $40 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $38 |
| Merck | 2 | $34 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $16 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 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.
How this compares
$5,751 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 193 otolaryngology providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Epinephrine | 12 | $2,807 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 93 | $2,319 |
| Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth | 20 | $1,603 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 91 | $1,127 |
| Famotidine | 110 | $1,115 |
| Omeprazole | 53 | $555 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 13 | $528 |
| Ofloxacin | 13 | $479 |
| Cefdinir | 17 | $318 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 24 | $294 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 66 | $274 |
| Mupirocin | 27 | $263 |
| Calcitriol | 17 | $233 |
| Nystatin | 11 | $191 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $170 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology in Fort Wayne
- Sreeya YalamanchaliFort Wayne$4K
- Brian HerrFort Wayne$3K
- Douglas NuckolsFort Wayne$3K
- Joshua GreeneAnderson$955K
- Satyan SreenathIndianapolis$103K
- Stephen FreemanCarmel$33K
- Venkata KakarlapudiNew Albany$33K
- Elisa IllingIndianapolis$28K
- Colin NeumannNew Albany$26K
- Erin KevernElkhart$26K
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.