Has Aaron Chokan, DPM received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $213,380 in general payments to Aaron Chokan, DPM across 446 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Aaron Chokan, DPM did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Aaron Chokan, DPM come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Aaron Chokan, DPM

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Stow, OHNPI 1700888401

Payments from drug & device makers

$213,380in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 446 payments — averaging $478.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$192K
Restor3d, Inc.$5K
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$4K
Stryker$3K
Linvatec Corporation$2K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
plus $6K from 40 others

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	222	$192,460
Restor3d, Inc.	6	$4,564
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	24	$4,253
Stryker(2 entities)	17	$3,045
Linvatec Corporation	3	$1,635
Zimmer Biomet	9	$1,085
Organogenesis Inc.	32	$1,079
Smith+Nephew	34	$756
Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.	3	$667
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	10	$428
Paragon 28, Inc.	6	$382
Kerecis Limited	4	$303
Convatec Inc.	4	$256
In2bones USA, LLC	4	$230
Solventum Corporation	3	$188
AbbVie	4	$178
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	9	$163
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$153
KCI USA, Inc.	4	$144
Acell, Inc.	3	$126
Nevro Corp.	4	$120
Medshape, Inc.	1	$118
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$117
Polarityte, Inc.	1	$106
Amgen(2 entities)	6	$95
Misonix Inc	1	$87
EBI, LLC	1	$86
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$73
Johnson & Johnson	1	$65
Globus Medical	1	$50
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$40
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	1	$35
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	2	$32
Axogen	1	$30
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$27
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$24
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$24
Medtronic	1	$23
Bioventus LLC	1	$21
Nexus Medical Technologies LLC	1	$20
Triad Life Sciences Inc.	1	$19
IBSA Pharma Inc.	1	$19
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$17
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$17
Merck	1	$11
Osiris Therapeutics Inc.	1	$11

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

$213,380 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 429 foot & ankle surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$185,208

Medicare patients

374

Services billed

1,792

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$4.9M
Thomas LeePickerington$4M
Jordan GrossmanAkron$2.5M
Robert GorslineHilliard$1.4M
Jonathan FeibelGahanna$1.4M
Mark PrisselWorthington$1.3M
Windy ColeKent$889K
Elizabeth HewittGrove City$464K
Lee HladGahanna$440K
Dominic RizzoBlue Ash$303K

See the full list for Ohio →

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.

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