Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Zef Markaj

Podiatrist Warren, MI Doctor of Podiatric Medicine

NPI 1538720958 CMS profile 6756108

5700 E 11 Mile Rd, Warren, MI 48091

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General payments

$6,089

90 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Zef Markaj of Warren, MI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,089 across 90 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 86th percentile of Podiatrist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $418 11
2024 General $46 2
2023 General $2,204 32
2022 General $1,043 12
2021 General $961 19
2020 General $244 5
2019 General $1,174 9

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Zef Markaj
  • Podiatrist median
  • Middle half of Podiatrist
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Zef Markaj were reported at $418. Among 4,572 Podiatrist profiles paid that year, the median was $260 and the middle half received between $94 and $777.

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Year Zef Markaj Podiatrist median Middle half National median
2019 $1,174 $196 $72–$601 $163
2020 $244 $118 $38–$335 $114
2021 $961 $169 $57–$573 $132
2022 $1,043 $220 $74–$782 $149
2023 $2,204 $208 $71–$635 $160
2024 $46 $237 $87–$681 $164
2025 $418 $260 $94–$777 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Pinnacle, Inc $1,670 18 payments
  2. Paragon 28, Inc. $1,093 8 payments
  3. Stryker Corporation $608 10 payments
  4. Arthrex, Inc. $478 11 payments
  5. Osteomed LLC $318 3 payments
  6. Tactile Systems Technology Inc $279 4 payments
  7. Bioventus LLC $222 2 payments
  8. Organogenesis Inc. $174 2 payments
  9. Horizon Therapeutics plc $125 2 payments
  10. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $113 3 payments
  11. Other $1,009 27 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,461 76 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,538 12 payments
  3. Education $1,091 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. PORTFOLIO $545 3 payments
  2. Precision Guide Lapidus $450 1 payment
  3. Flexitouch Plus $279 4 payments
  4. Nimbl $279 4 payments
  5. HOFFMANN $265 4 payments
  6. EXT-Extremilock Foot $210 2 payments
  7. ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE $205 2 payments
  8. SALVATION $171 1 payment
  9. SONICANCHOR $132 1 payment
  10. MINIRAIL $132 1 payment
  11. Other $2,147 47 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 9 drugs

Part D claims

537

Median for Podiatry: 160

Drug cost

$8,129

Median for Podiatry: $2,368

Branded share of claims

2.2%

Median for Podiatry: 12.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Ketoconazole Generic 173 $3,730
Ammonium Lactate Generic 173 $2,211
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 64 $1,183
Ciclopirox Generic 18 $296
Cephalexin Generic 37 $197
Silver Sulfadiazine Generic 16 $189
Gabapentin Generic 14 $133
Ssd Silver Sulfadiazine Brand 12 $124
Meloxicam Generic 30 $65

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 14,093 Part D prescribers listed as Podiatry; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 43 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$831,502

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

430

Average age 79

Services billed

3,033

276 women, 154 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 63%
Diabetes 50%
Ischemic heart disease 45%
Chronic kidney disease 42%
Heart failure 38%
Depression 36%
Atrial fibrillation 32%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

1 product · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Qutenza
  • Averitas Pharma Inc. $13
$13 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

90 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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