Stephen Heisler, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1710360953
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $38,528 of the $49,414 with a category attached, or 78.0%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Reddress USA, Inc. at 46.4% of the total. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in NC 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 81 payments — averaging $610.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Reddress USA, Inc.$23K
- Lifenet Health$20K
- Bioventus LLC$2K
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$2K
- Southtech Orthopedics$2K
- Arthrex$641
- plus $777 from 8 others
Across 366 payments — averaging $1298.67 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$443K
- Reddress LTD$32K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$38,52878%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0004%
- Travel & lodging$4,4909%
- Food & beverage$2,3945%
- Education$2,0034%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Reddress USA, Inc. | 28 | $22,930 |
| Lifenet Health | 29 | $19,606 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $2,127 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $1,800 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 5 | $1,534 |
| Arthrex | 6 | $641 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $258 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $188 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $175 |
| Polymedics Innovations Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $16 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$18,983
- ActiGraft$6,264
- Influx$1,800
- INTEGRA$525
- Restrata Wound Matrix$258
- FLEXITOUCH$188
- ACTITOUCH$188
- ENTRE$188
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$175
- PRIMATRIX$175
How this compares
$49,414 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 196 foot & ankle surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 43 | $544 |
| Cephalexin | 19 | $321 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 27 | $271 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 19 | $248 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $237 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 20 | $83 |
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 12 | $81 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Chapel Hill
- Deepali DarjiChapel Hill$19K
- Robert OlsonGastonia$473K
- Austin MatthewsLumberton$279K
- Matthew DzurikWilmington$142K
- Kristen McGinnessFayetteville$123K
- William RespessGreenville$79K
- Brian FutrellCary$71K
- Kenneth BloomMooresville$53K
- Benjamin UmbelMorganton$37K
- Andrew HanselmanWake Forest$30K
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.