Timothy Ford, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1801849435
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 418 payments — averaging $62.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$9K
- Stryker$6K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Osteomed LLC$2K
- Organogenesis Inc.$1K
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$788
- plus $5K from 37 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5006%
- Travel & lodging$1,0744%
- Food & beverage$14,94257%
- Education$8,55133%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 20 | $9,265 |
| Stryker | 142 | $6,020 |
| Smith+Nephew | 100 | $2,185 |
| Osteomed LLC | 1 | $1,500 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 29 | $1,100 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 12 | $788 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 25 | $622 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $568 |
| Bioventus LLC | 7 | $398 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $344 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $334 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $281 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $255 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $213 |
| Abbott | 2 | $194 |
| Axogen | 2 | $186 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $182 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $163 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 2 | $154 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $124 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $117 |
| Celularity Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $89 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 4 | $85 |
| Misonix Inc | 5 | $83 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 2 | $81 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $74 |
| Polymedics Innovations Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $51 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $46 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $33 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $20 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Wishbone Medical Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- EXT-Other$1,500
- INTEGRA$776
- PuraPly$626
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$596
- VARIAX$560
- KRYSTEXXA$482
- RENASYS TOUCH$410
- Grafix$399
- ANCHORAGE$359
- EASYFUSE$310
- Restrata Wound Matrix$302
- INBONE$290
- Stravix$285
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$281
- Oasis$262
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$259
- PRIMATRIX$259
- PICO 7$251
- Novosorb BTM$238
- INFINITY$197
How this compares
$26,066 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 | 26 | $792 |
| Meloxicam | 14 | $411 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $111 |
| Cephalexin | 27 | $103 |
| Methylprednisolone | 15 | $46 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 15 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Louisville
- Carl KihmLouisville$89K
- Nicholas LacoLouisville$60K
- Jay LechnerLouisville$29K
- William McGloneLouisville$26K
- Garrett WiremanLouisville$26K
- Jonathan TowarnickiLouisville$22K
- Zachary OgdenLouisville$22K
- Eric GustafsonLouisville$20K
- Nicholas VogelsangLouisville$18K
- Jordan VogtLouisville$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.