Phong le, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Sacramento, CANPI 1316191166
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (55.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 81.8% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in CA 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 402 payments — averaging $260.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$86K
- Arthrex$10K
- Sequoia Surgical, Inc.$3K
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$2K
- Bioventus LLC$2K
- Smith+Nephew$526
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$57,97555%
- Travel & lodging$20,42819%
- Food & beverage$16,14215%
- Education$10,34110%
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 | 246 | $85,790 |
| Arthrex | 34 | $9,693 |
| Sequoia Surgical, Inc. | 8 | $2,855 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 8 | $1,934 |
| Bioventus LLC | 30 | $1,627 |
| Smith+Nephew | 35 | $526 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 7 | $387 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $273 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 4 | $262 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $213 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $175 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $164 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 3 | $136 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $136 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $112 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 2 | $112 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $106 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $35 |
| Merck | 2 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $11 |
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$55,406
- GRAVITY SYNCHFIX$7,996
- FIXOS$7,804
- CITREFIX$6,390
- PROPHECY$3,883
- EASYFUSE$3,815
- INFINITY$3,742
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$2,259
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$1,082
- FUSEFORCE$1,050
- VARIAX$1,016
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$849
- SALVATION$660
- INBONE$538
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$493
- ALLOWRAP$479
- STAR$436
- HOFFMANN$330
- ALLOMATRIX$269
- N/A$245
How this compares
$104,886 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,126 foot & ankle surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 17 | $1,708 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 51 | $696 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 17 | $561 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 24 | $555 |
| Ciclopirox | 12 | $259 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 21 | $211 |
| Cephalexin | 21 | $118 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $93 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 11 | $90 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Sacramento
- Eric GizaSacramento$3.6M
- Thomas HarrisPasadena$3M
- Thomas ChangSanta Rosa$2M
- Michael CoughlinSan Francisco$1.6M
- Vladimir ZeetserEncino$677K
- Jason NowakRedding$526K
- Candice BradyCamarillo$462K
- Andrew HsuOrange$456K
- Eric TanLos Angeles$447K
- Joseph ParkBurbank$387K
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.