Brian Sleasman, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1215386628
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 99 payments — averaging $145.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$5K
- Stryker$3K
- Foundation Medical, LLC$3K
- Medwest Associates$1K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$685
- plus $837 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,75226%
- Food & beverage$4,83233%
- Education$5,84341%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 33 | $4,658 |
| Stryker | 29 | $3,115 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 12 | $2,840 |
| Medwest Associates | 1 | $1,200 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 11 | $1,092 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $685 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $197 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $149 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $145 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $119 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $119 |
| Axogen | 1 | $108 |
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.
- INFINITY$1,007
- Additive Orthopedics$825
- PROstep$408
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$332
- ANCHORAGE$172
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$170
- STAR$160
- Cadence$145
- Panta 2$145
- SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$145
- TrueLok$141
- VARIAX$138
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS FOOT & ANKLE MESH PLATES$125
- ORTHOPEDIC CABLE / PERIPROSTHETIC SYSTEM$125
- HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREWS$119
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$119
- HAMMERLOCK$119
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$119
- Stratum Foot Plating System$114
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$108
How this compares
$14,426 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 555 foot and 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 79 | $324 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Chicago
- Edgardo Rodriguez CollazoChicago$755K
- Stephanie OexemanChicago$206K
- Jeffrey AlexanderChicago$158K
- Matthew GaroufalisChicago$151K
- George HolmesChicago$134K
- Stephanie AtoyebiChicago$115K
- Simon LeeChicago$86K
- Milap PatelChicago$52K
- Theodore PolizosChicago$47K
- Wonyong LeeChicago$23K
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.