Has Alexander McKanna received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,341 in general payments to Alexander McKanna across 328 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 Alexander McKanna 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 Alexander McKanna 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.

Alexander McKanna

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Itasca, ILNPI 1285029694

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (44.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 51 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pathway Medical Partners, LLC at 26.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,281 and has fallen 68.5% since, to $2,926 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$25,341in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 328 payments — averaging $77.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Pathway Medical Partners, LLC$7K
Medwest Associates$5K
Mimedx Group, Inc.$3K
Stryker$2K
Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
Arthrex$1K
plus $6K from 45 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,0008%
Travel & lodging$4,27317%
Food & beverage$7,64030%
Education$11,33845%
Entertainment$900%

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
Pathway Medical Partners, LLC	1	$6,800
Medwest Associates	11	$5,057
Mimedx Group, Inc.	8	$2,558
Stryker	25	$2,022
Paragon 28, Inc.	10	$1,450
Arthrex	13	$1,077
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	115	$1,025
DNE LLC	1	$903
Smith+Nephew	26	$594
Linvatec Corporation	7	$564
Amgen(2 entities)	11	$449
Organogenesis Inc.	26	$334
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	4	$270
Johnson & Johnson	5	$251
Surgenex LLC	3	$214
Kerecis Limited	5	$156
Amniox Medical, Inc.	2	$150
ETS Wound Care LLC	2	$139
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	4	$134
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	1	$90
Acera Surgical, Inc.	3	$82
Bone Support Inc.	2	$81
Oak Med, Inc.	1	$75
Next Science LLC	4	$66
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	4	$61
Solventum Corporation	2	$58
Axogen	2	$54
Polynovo North America LLC	2	$43
DJO, LLC	1	$40
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$39
Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$39
AbbVie(2 entities)	2	$39
Vertex	2	$37
Medtronic	1	$37
Biowound Solutions, Inc.	1	$35
Misonix Inc	2	$33
Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC	1	$31
Medshape, Inc.	1	$31
Bioventus LLC	1	$27
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	1	$26
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$22
Accufix Surgical Inc.	1	$18
Normatec Industries, LP	1	$17
Acumed LLC	1	$16
Cashflow Solutions, LLC	1	$16
Nevro Corp.	1	$16
Urgo Medical North America, LLC	1	$15
Medline Industries LP	1	$15
Bsn Medical Inc	1	$14
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	1	$12
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC	1	$10

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

$25,341 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 555 foot & ankle surgery providers in Illinois.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Nitroglycerin PatchNitroglycerin	17	$462
Gabapentin	28	$303
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	26	$193
Meloxicam	34	$167
Doxycycline Hyclate	15	$90
Tramadol Hcl	19	$29

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Itasca

Douglas PacaccioRockford$4.1M
Anand VoraLibertyville$3.2M
Lowell WeilMount Prospect$2.2M
Matthew SorensenAlgonquin$1.1M
Edgardo Rodriguez CollazoChicago$755K
David GarrasOrland Park$658K
Patrick McEneaneyCary$570K
Brian BurgessNaperville$488K
Kyle PearsonMorris$208K
Stephanie OexemanChicago$206K

See the full list for Illinois →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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