Aaron Chokan, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Stow, OHNPI 1700888401
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $107,235 of the $142,002 with a category attached, or 75.5%. Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. accounts for 85.3% of it on its own, with 45 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $54,972, more than ten times the $2,611 reported in 2019. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in OH 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 400 payments — averaging $355.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$121K
- Restor3d, Inc.$5K
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Linvatec Corporation$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- plus $6K from 40 others
Across 45 payments — averaging $1584.92 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$71K
Across 1 payment — averaging $56.97 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Restor3d, Inc.$57
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$107,23576%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,8252%
- Grants$4300%
- Travel & lodging$15,99611%
- Food & beverage$14,84110%
- Education$6750%
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.
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.
- Lapiplasty System$68,645
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$44,912
- COLINK PLATING SYSTEM$1,500
- TMC PSI CUT GUIDE SYSTEM$1,059
- Kerecis SurgiClose$1,054
- PERCUPLASTY TRAY$969
- Lapiplasty$942
- Juggerknot$720
- INTEGRA$435
- TMC SPEEDTMT$377
- PROPHECY$324
- CITREFIX$322
- Kerecis GraftGuide$263
- TMC NANOPLASTY SYSTEM$249
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$174
- Actishield$172
- PROSTEP MICA$172
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$172
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$151
- TAR$147
How this compares
$142,002 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 429 foot & ankle surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 39 | $1,441 |
| Ketoconazole | 32 | $1,280 |
| Gabapentin | 133 | $1,257 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 28 | $1,052 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 105 | $630 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 33 | $589 |
| Ciclopirox | 29 | $516 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 37 | $434 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 46 | $395 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 20 | $228 |
| Mupirocin | 16 | $154 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 14 | $152 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 16 | $134 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $125 |
| Cephalexin | 24 | $122 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Stow
- Christopher HyerWorthington$4.7M
- Thomas LeePickerington$4M
- Jordan GrossmanAkron$2.5M
- Robert GorslineHilliard$1.4M
- Jonathan FeibelGahanna$1.4M
- Mark PrisselWorthington$1.2M
- Lee HladGahanna$440K
- Windy ColeKent$431K
- Elizabeth HewittGrove City$414K
- Dominic RizzoBlue Ash$303K
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.