Thuy Ho Ellsworth, DPM
Podiatrist · Austin, TXNPI 1396942496
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 222 payments — averaging $20.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nevro Corp.$693
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$545
- Amgen$470
- Averitas Pharma Inc.$451
- Stryker$306
- Abbott$256
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3618%
- Food & beverage$4,26192%
- Education$40%
- Gifts$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nevro Corp. | 32 | $693 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 7 | $545 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 39 | $470 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 15 | $451 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 9 | $306 |
| Abbott | 5 | $256 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $250 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 12 | $235 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 20 | $231 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 25 | $188 |
| Misonix Inc | 5 | $166 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $148 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 7 | $75 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $59 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $51 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Lifenet Health | 3 | $38 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $31 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Merck | 2 | $26 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 2 | $23 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $23 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Core Surgical Group | 1 | $20 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $19 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $8 |
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.
How this compares
$4,643 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 470 podiatrist providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 28 | $1,622 |
| Gabapentin | 40 | $361 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 49 | $311 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $125 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Austin
- Brian CarpenterFort Worth$1.2M
- Gary LepowHouston$1M
- Travis MotleyFort Worth$888K
- Wayne HurstCedar Park$625K
- Calvin RushingSunnyvale$462K
- Lena LevineFort Worth$298K
- Robert TaylorFrisco$280K
- Alan GarrettFort Worth$236K
- Patrick BriggsWebster$236K
- Anna SanchezSan Antonio$219K
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.