Has Armen Kelikian, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $187,094 in general payments to Armen Kelikian, MD across 450 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 Armen Kelikian, MD 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 Armen Kelikian, MD 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.

Armen Kelikian, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1790737757

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $125,938 of the $187,094 with a category attached, or 67.3%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. at 35.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $47,855 and has fallen 94.8% since, to $2,497 in 2025. Among orthopaedic 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.

$187,094in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 450 payments — averaging $415.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$66K
Stryker$52K
Trimed, Inc.$46K
Trilliant Surgical LLC.$11K
Medshape, Inc.$6K
Arthrex$2K
plus $5K from 18 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$125,93867%
Speaking & faculty fees$14,0007%
Travel & lodging$23,62313%
Food & beverage$21,44211%
Education$1,7471%
Entertainment$3450%

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.	71	$65,917
Stryker(2 entities)	240	$51,887
Trimed, Inc.	63	$45,622
Trilliant Surgical LLC.	14	$10,577
Medshape, Inc.	16	$6,001
Arthrex	3	$1,905
DJO, LLC	7	$594
Johnson & Johnson	6	$564
Ossio Inc	1	$465
Medwest Associates	2	$440
Exactech, Inc.	3	$435
Novastep Inc.	4	$417
Next Science LLC	2	$342
Linvatec Corporation	2	$285
Smith+Nephew	2	$283
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc	2	$234
Encore Medical, LP	2	$193
Zimmer Biomet	2	$179
Medacta USA, Inc.	2	$141
Bone Support Inc.	1	$132
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	2	$131
Amgen	1	$127
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$125
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$100

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$64,499
T2$27,797
STAR$19,430
ANCHORAGE$16,986
ASNIS$16,880
HOFFMANN$16,880
Arsenal Sinus Support Plate$10,269
FIXOS$7,935
VARIAX$7,105
DynaNail$5,546
AXSOS$5,489
INFINITY$4,770
Tools - HPS$3,612
PROPHECY$2,550
Tools - WFS$1,981
Arsenal Ankle 10 Hole 1/3 Tubular Plate$1,393
INBONE$901
Tools - AFS$804
AUGMENT INJECTABLE$611
SurgX$342

How this compares

$187,094 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$138,549

Medicare patients

459

Services billed

1,242

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
Enoxaparin Sodium	18	$923
Celecoxib	58	$662
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	55	$411
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	74	$381
Tramadol Hcl	41	$67

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Ken YamaguchiChicago$1.7M
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Hue LuuChicago$1.1M
Alpesh PatelChicago$917K
Samuel StulbergChicago$852K
Richard BergerChicago$618K
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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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