Stephanie Eldridge
Podiatrist · Hickory, NCNPI 1730529470
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,235 of the $3,805 with a category attached, or 85.0%. 34 manufacturers reported payments, led by Convatec Inc. at 32.2% of the total.
Across 110 payments — averaging $34.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Convatec Inc.$1K
- Organogenesis Inc.$792
- Smith+Nephew$260
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$217
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$193
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$109
- plus $1K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$54614%
- Food & beverage$3,23585%
- Entertainment$231%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Convatec Inc. | 12 | $1,227 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 33 | $792 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $260 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $217 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $193 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $109 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 1 | $108 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $88 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $72 |
| Orpyx Medical Technologies US Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $67 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $65 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $57 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Piedmont Plus Innovation | 2 | $31 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $29 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $15 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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$916
- CellerateRx$200
- Apligraf$128
- PuraPly$121
How this compares
$3,805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 109 podiatrist providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 59 | $1,834 |
| Ciclopirox | 43 | $1,451 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 40 | $840 |
| Mupirocin | 75 | $553 |
| Ketoconazole | 21 | $501 |
| Nitroglycerin PatchNitroglycerin | 15 | $368 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $227 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 26 | $200 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $52 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Hickory
- Randall EldridgeHickory$3K
- Jordan MeyersRaleigh$343K
- Christopher GaulandGreenville$56K
- Scott MartinRocky Mount$14K
- Gretchen LawrenceForest City$12K
- William WeilyCharlotte$11K
- Kristin KirbyHuntersville$10K
- Robert PrzynoschWaynesville$9K
- William BanksWaynesville$9K
- Emily LobosAsheville$9K
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.