Has Steven Herbst, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,550,380 in general payments to Steven Herbst, MD across 291 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Steven Herbst, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Steven Herbst, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Steven Herbst, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · Muncie, INNPI 1588671788

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $1,007,551 of the $1,550,380 with a category attached, or 65.0%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 79.7% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $903,609 and has fallen 92.2% since, to $70,236 in 2025. Among foot and ankle surgery clinicians in IN 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.

$1,550,380in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 291 payments — averaging $5327.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$1.2M
Medshape, Inc.$163K
Acumed LLC$111K
Biopoly LLC$40K
Curvafix, Inc.$500
Exactech, Inc.$292
plus $830 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$301,60619%
Consulting fees$112,5247%
Speaking & faculty fees$75,2965%
Travel & lodging$26,3102%
Food & beverage$3,7180%
Education$23,3752%
Other$1,007,55165%

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
Zimmer Biomet	201	$1,235,422
Medshape, Inc.	2	$162,707
Acumed LLC	64	$110,748
Biopoly LLC	4	$39,881
Curvafix, Inc.	1	$500
Exactech, Inc.	3	$292
Stryker	6	$292
Paragon 28, Inc.	2	$230
Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC	1	$120
Exsomed Corporation	1	$67
Johnson & Johnson	2	$59
DJO, LLC	2	$27
Avanos Medical	1	$19
Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC	1	$17

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.

Low Profile Reamer$847,345
Trabecular Metal (TM)$212,087
Trabecular Metal (TM) Ankle$147,052
BioPoly Great Toe Hemiarthroplasty Implant$142,978
Ankle Plating System$85,355
Calcaneal Plating System$77,105
Fibula Rod System$71,330
Acutrak Headless Compression Screw System$63,073
Forefoot/Midfoot Plating System$60,955
Small Fragment Base Set$12,460
Trabecular Metal TM Instruments$10,125
Rebalance Ankle$7,438
ACUMED$3,250
PD-Foot&Ankle-New Product$1,500
Extremifix Cannulated Screw System$1,177
ExtremiLOCK Foot Plating System$1,177
ExtremiLOCK Ankle Fusion Plating System$1,177
Talar-Fit Subtalar Arthroereisis Implant$1,177
ExtremiLOCK Ankle Plating System$1,177
Nextremity General Instrument$875

How this compares

$1,550,380 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 212 foot and ankle surgery providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$172,837

Medicare patients

365

Services billed

18,478

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	123	$1,505
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	68	$826
Gabapentin	47	$444
Cephalexin	42	$243
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	20	$108
Methylprednisolone	13	$94
Tramadol Hcl	24	$62

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot and ankle surgery in Muncie

Douglas BlacklidgeKokomo$689K
Patrick DeheerIndianapolis$493K
Scott NevilleMooresville$353K
Travis MontgomeryWestfield$345K
Robert Clemency IiiSchererville$215K
William AdamsGreenfield$178K
Steven DouthettFort Wayne$153K
Christopher WintersCarmel$152K
Brian ElliottShelbyville$142K
Charles SisovskyNewburgh$70K

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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.

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