Caleb Steffen, MD
Surgery · Jefferson City, MONPI 1275844771
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 62 payments — averaging $33.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$520
- AbbVie$219
- Vertex$175
- Kerecis Limited$142
- Merz North America, Inc.$140
- Sientra, Inc.$121
- plus $755 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$50424%
- Food & beverage$1,56876%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 2 | $520 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $219 |
| Vertex | 5 | $175 |
| Kerecis Limited | 7 | $142 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 2 | $121 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $107 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $92 |
| Axogen | 5 | $91 |
| Stryker | 3 | $72 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $54 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $39 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $35 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $32 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $13 |
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.
- XEOMIN$110
How this compares
$2,072 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 612 surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 83 | $2,233 |
| Cephalexin | 123 | $935 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 67 | $343 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 46 | $267 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 19 | $264 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 44 | $191 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 37 | $92 |
| Diazepam | 30 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Jefferson City
- Carl DoerhoffJefferson City$129K
- Ani Nathalang-PinonJefferson City$34K
- Chandra PrasadJefferson City$28K
- Tiffany OsbornSaint Louis$493K
- Jeffrey BlatnikSaint Louis$422K
- Varun PuriSaint Louis$346K
- Victor VidalsKansas City$327K
- James ScottSaint Louis$307K
- Andrew WheelerColumbia$298K
- Omar GuerraSaint Louis$249K
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.