Paul Potach, DPM
Podiatrist · Wheeling, ILNPI 1073627410
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $40,764 of the $45,035 with a category attached, or 90.5%. Convatec Inc. accounts for 90.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $41,659, more than ten times the $56 reported in 2019. Among podiatrist clinicians in IL 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 124 payments — averaging $363.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Convatec Inc.$41K
- Organogenesis Inc.$3K
- Amgen$485
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$166
- Nevro Corp.$146
- Next Science LLC$59
- plus $72 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$130%
- Food & beverage$4,2589%
- Other$40,76491%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Convatec Inc. | 11 | $40,764 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 64 | $3,343 |
| Amgen | 38 | $485 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $166 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $146 |
| Next Science LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Novum Pharma, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| GRT US Holding, 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.
- InnovaMatrix AC$40,764
- PuraPly$931
- SIMPLIMAX$235
- Diamondback Peripheral$166
- Senza$146
- Apligraf$130
- CYGNUS DUAL$109
How this compares
$45,035 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 409 podiatrist providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 29 | $559 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 17 | $114 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Wheeling
- David YeagerMorrison$345K
- Paul KirchnerNew Lenox$143K
- William BushRockford$141K
- Daniel BrownHarrisburg$136K
- Syed HusainArlington Heights$82K
- Timothy GrahamTaylorville$70K
- Steven JasonowiczBarrington$34K
- Jaclyn SchumannJoliet$29K
- Zehra HyderiAlgonquin$27K
- Magdalena MarcinekAddison$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.