Carl Freeman, MD
Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1629172846
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
CSL Behring accounts for 61.6% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,157 and has fallen 80.1% since, to $429 in 2025.
Across 79 payments — averaging $91.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CSL Behring$4K
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$445
- KCI USA, Inc.$384
- Davol Inc.$379
- Kerecis Limited$280
- Johnson & Johnson$235
- plus $1K from 17 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $9826.63 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- CSL Behring$219K
- Humacyte Global, Inc.$7K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,86854%
- Food & beverage$3,35546%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring | 29 | $4,446 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $445 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $384 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $379 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $280 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $235 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $151 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $150 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $100 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $89 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $72 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $59 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $56 |
| CLR Medical, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $53 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $24 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$7,222 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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.
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- Jeffrey BlatnikSaint Louis$134K
- Sekhar DharmarajanSaint Louis$110K
- Shaina EckhouseSaint Louis$67K
- Jason RheeSaint Louis$63K
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.