Alex Sabers
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Kansas City, MONPI 1548557374
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $10,532 of the $15,303 with a category attached, or 68.8%. Linvatec Corporation accounts for 77.7% of it on its own, with 33 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,912 and has fallen 92.4% since, to $755 in 2025.
Across 112 payments — averaging $136.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Linvatec Corporation$12K
- Organogenesis Inc.$882
- Stryker$388
- Surgenex LLC$301
- Johnson & Johnson$217
- Zimmer Biomet$211
- plus $1K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,1177%
- Food & beverage$3,65424%
- Other$10,53269%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Linvatec Corporation | 9 | $11,883 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 25 | $882 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 7 | $388 |
| Surgenex LLC | 8 | $301 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $217 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $211 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $158 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $122 |
| Amgen | 5 | $89 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 2 | $85 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $65 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $62 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $56 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $50 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $46 |
| Vertex | 2 | $45 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $45 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $44 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $43 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $25 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novastep Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- AVENGER RADIAL HEAD, +4 STEMS$10,471
- COLINK PLATING SYSTEM$1,117
- PuraPly$340
- STAR$142
- OMNIGRAFT$125
- PRIMATRIX$125
- MEDIHONEY$125
- TCC-EZ$125
- AMNIOEXCEL$125
- Stratum Foot Plating System$125
- BioBrace 23mm$125
- XARELTO$101
How this compares
$15,303 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 163 foot & ankle surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 48 | $614 |
| Ketoconazole | 12 | $555 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 40 | $401 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 35 | $272 |
| Methylprednisolone | 21 | $107 |
| Levofloxacin | 15 | $82 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 12 | $77 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Kansas City
- Timothy BadweyKansas City$427K
- Jason AndersonKansas City$131K
- Ryan JensonKansas City$17K
- Dylan GrauKansas City$8K
- Jeremy McCormickSaint Louis$1.5M
- Jeffrey JohnsonSaint Louis$944K
- Raymond AbdoSaint Louis$251K
- Vincent SollecitoSaint Louis$221K
- Amar PatelLees Summit$203K
- Anthony LombardoBridgeton$132K
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.