Bret Musser, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1801201579
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 82.7% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,967 and has fallen 94.5% since, to $272 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.
Across 179 payments — averaging $102.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$15K
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$1K
- Kerecis Limited$546
- Osteomed LLC$320
- Abbott$160
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$131
- plus $542 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,13133%
- Food & beverage$10,89059%
- Education$1,4028%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 142 | $15,228 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 7 | $1,498 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $546 |
| Osteomed LLC | 7 | $320 |
| Abbott | 1 | $160 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $58 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Celularity Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- HOFFMANN$1,938
- PRIME SERIES$1,499
- STAR$1,353
- PROstep$1,326
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$910
- INBONE$880
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$764
- GRAVITY$585
- GRAVITY SYNCHFIX$585
- Actishield$559
- VARIAX$540
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$468
- SALVATION$450
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$429
- T2$371
- PROPHECY$337
- Kerecis Omega3 Surgibind$336
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$336
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$336
- ICONIX$319
How this compares
$18,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 555 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clotrimazole | 32 | $761 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 54 | $642 |
| Gabapentin | 67 | $587 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 25 | $464 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 42 | $291 |
| Pregabalin | 29 | $246 |
| Methylprednisolone | 30 | $215 |
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 18 | $160 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 16 | $138 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $129 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $115 |
| Meloxicam | 41 | $86 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Chicago
- Edgardo Rodriguez CollazoChicago$755K
- Stephanie OexemanChicago$206K
- Jeffrey AlexanderChicago$158K
- Matthew GaroufalisChicago$151K
- George HolmesChicago$134K
- Milap PatelChicago$52K
- Theodore PolizosChicago$47K
- Simon LeeChicago$34K
- Wonyong LeeChicago$23K
- Kamran HamidChicago$19K
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.