Thomas Rehm, DPM
Podiatrist · Asheville, NCNPI 1447213921
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,834 of the $2,904 with a category attached, or 63.2%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Peerless Surgical Inc. at 37.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,645 and has fallen 78.5% since, to $353 in 2025.
Across 52 payments — averaging $55.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$1K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$315
- Smith+Nephew$246
- Osiris Therapeutics Inc.$241
- Linvatec Corporation$164
- Inari Medical, Inc.$145
- plus $692 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,83463%
- Education$1,07037%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 2 | $1,100 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 7 | $315 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $246 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 7 | $241 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $164 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $141 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $64 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 2 | $36 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $36 |
| Amgen | 2 | $29 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Piedmont Plus Innovation | 1 | $17 |
| Rikco International, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $12 |
| GRT US Holding, 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.
- RTS$164
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$145
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$145
- Stratum Foot Plating System$141
- Stravix$119
- Grafix$119
- GrafixPL$119
How this compares
$2,904 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 236 | $4,740 |
| Fluconazole | 303 | $4,397 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 176 | $2,232 |
| Fluorouracil | 20 | $1,365 |
| Colchicine | 39 | $1,160 |
| Pregabalin | 140 | $868 |
| Nystatin | 56 | $720 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 20 | $599 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 74 | $503 |
| Mupirocin | 65 | $496 |
| Methylprednisolone | 91 | $478 |
| Meloxicam | 124 | $348 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 18 | $292 |
| Gabapentin | 42 | $244 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 11 | $226 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Asheville
- Emily LobosAsheville$9K
- Jennifer SzypczakAsheville$7K
- Ashish MishraAsheville$5K
- Lily MooreAsheville$4K
- Gregory CostanzoAsheville$2K
- Daniel WaldmanAsheville$2K
- Jordan MeyersRaleigh$343K
- Christopher GaulandGreenville$56K
- Scott MartinRocky Mount$14K
- Gretchen LawrenceForest City$12K
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.