Troy Zimbelman
Foot Surgery · Prattville, ALNPI 1568528396
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 15 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 10 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $251 and has fallen 76.3% since, to $59 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for foot surgery clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $1,225.
Across 15 payments — averaging $51.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$150
- Stryker$132
- Kerecis Limited$120
- Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$111
- Vaporox, Inc.$106
- Trice Medical, Inc.$59
- plus $87 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$765100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $150 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 2 | $132 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $120 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $111 |
| Vaporox, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$765 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 35 foot surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 272 | $6,713 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 318 | $3,025 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 266 | $2,808 |
| Gabapentin | 311 | $2,317 |
| Etodolac | 94 | $2,021 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 72 | $1,245 |
| Pregabalin | 89 | $1,214 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 26 | $596 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $532 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 30 | $287 |
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 33 | $246 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $184 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 23 | $69 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot surgery in Prattville
- Silvia Garcia-LavinPrattville$97
- Brooke GorhamGadsden$211K
- Eric FillingerCullman$19K
- John VanoreGadsden$17K
- Jean PrattGadsden$8K
- Robert RussellBirmingham$7K
- Richard HarrisBirmingham$6K
- James BowmanSylacauga$4K
- Robson AraujoAlbertville$3K
- Stefan ZweigDothan$2K
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.