Walter Ellis, DPM
Podiatrist · St Cloud, MNNPI 1588625958
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $22,153 of the $23,043 with a category attached, or 96.1%. Arthrex accounts for 96.1% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,118 and has fallen 97.7% since, to $233 in 2025. Among podiatrist clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 40 payments — averaging $576.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$22K
- Stryker$124
- Gemini Medical LLC$120
- Bone Support Inc.$79
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$73
- Next Science LLC$70
- plus $423 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$22,15396%
- Food & beverage$8894%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 10 | $22,153 |
| Stryker | 3 | $124 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $70 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $62 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $30 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $13 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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
$23,043 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 105 podiatrist providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Econazole Nitrate | 50 | $10,831 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $112 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $90 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in St Cloud
- Stephen MariashSartell$45K
- Lindsey HjelmSartell$18K
- Nathan SandersAlbert Lea$17K
- Grace OuyangMadelia$14K
- Nicholas StaubRichfield$12K
- Benjy OlsenDetroit Lakes$11K
- Jacob HarderBrainerd$11K
- Kimberly BobbittMinneapolis$11K
- Sharilyn MooreForest Lake$8K
- Brett WaverlyMaple Grove$8K
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.