Syed Ahmed, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Elizabethtown, KYNPI 1235228040
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 32 payments — averaging $32.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organogenesis Inc.$368
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$160
- Stryker$131
- Triad Life Sciences Inc.$59
- Amgen$45
- Paragon 28, Inc.$35
- plus $246 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,042100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organogenesis Inc. | 10 | $368 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Stryker | 1 | $131 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Amgen | 3 | $45 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Misonix Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Abbott | 1 | $30 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $26 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Rikco International, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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.
- Lapiplasty System$160
- ORTHOLOC$131
- PuraPly$119
How this compares
$1,042 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 141 foot & ankle surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 39 | $455 |
| Ketoconazole | 15 | $447 |
| Cephalexin | 57 | $432 |
| Ciclopirox | 22 | $346 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $275 |
| Silver Sulfadiazine | 30 | $268 |
| Levofloxacin | 35 | $256 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 22 | $217 |
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 18 | $130 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 23 | $119 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 20 | $116 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 12 | $73 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $66 |
| Prednisone | 25 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Elizabethtown
- Paul KluttsElizabethtown$22K
- William Adams IiPaducah$485K
- Sofie PinneyCynthiana$130K
- Carl KihmLouisville$89K
- Bradford FineLexington$82K
- Nicholas LacoLouisville$60K
- Jay LechnerLouisville$29K
- Russell BakerCarrollton$27K
- William McGloneLouisville$26K
- Timothy FordLouisville$26K
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.