Christine Heck, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1275648073
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 12 payments — averaging $22.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Osiris Therapeutics Inc.$68
- Paragon 28, Inc.$57
- Osteomed LLC$36
- Johnson & Johnson$32
- Smith+Nephew$28
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$20
- plus $30 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$23487%
- Education$3613%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Osteomed LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $32 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $28 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$269 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 11 | $128 |
| Cephalexin | 17 | $121 |
| Diazepam | 11 | $40 |
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
- 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.