Seth Launer, DPM
Podiatrist · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1184659112
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.3%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 95.6% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,053 and has fallen 78.9% since, to $434 in 2025.
Across 78 payments — averaging $60.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- DJO, LLC$129
- Smith+Nephew$49
- Baxter Healthcare$14
- Merck$14
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,95042%
- Food & beverage$2,07644%
- Education$66514%
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(2 entities) | 65 | $4,484 |
| DJO, LLC | 9 | $129 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $49 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 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.
- INBONE$1,429
- INVISION$871
- PROPHECY$871
- PROstep$564
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$514
- INFINITY$249
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$106
How this compares
$4,691 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 46 podiatrist providers in New Mexico.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Terbinafine Hcl | 99 | $1,296 |
| Ciclopirox | 17 | $380 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 27 | $174 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $103 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Albuquerque
- Daniel PetersonAlbuquerque$22K
- Nathan IveyAlbuquerque$6K
- Jonathan WilliamsonAlbuquerque$4K
- Jose Hernandez LingaoAlbuquerque$3K
- Brent FrameAlbuquerque$3K
- Chad BradyAlbuquerque$2K
- John PanekAlbuquerque$2K
- Eric KogaAlbuquerque$1K
- Sarah MeleAlbuquerque$1K
- Upneet KaurAlbuquerque$935
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.