Andres Lerner, MD
Hand Surgery · O Fallon, ILNPI 1285865204
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 19 payments — averaging $66.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$680
- Arthrex$445
- Stryker$93
- Merck$23
- Innovation Technologies Inc$16
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$11
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$71256%
- Food & beverage$55744%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 6 | $680 |
| Arthrex | 9 | $445 |
| Stryker | 1 | $93 |
| Merck | 1 | $23 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,268 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 121 hand surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 22 | $1,276 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 63 | $415 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 125 | $236 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in O Fallon
- Jeffrey VisotskyMorton Grove$1.1M
- Robert GraySkokie$422K
- Robert CoatsTinley Park$408K
- Randipsingh BindraMaywood$297K
- Jonathan TuetingAurora$190K
- Mark CohenChicago$78K
- Jeffrey StepanChicago$71K
- Leon BensonGlenview$62K
- Debdut BiswasWarrenville$56K
- Jeffery SmithDecatur$52K
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.