Constantine Fotopoulos, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Kansas City, MONPI 1023075272
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $65,902 of the $90,718 with a category attached, or 72.6%. Stryker accounts for 75.5% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $26,722 and has fallen 74.5% since, to $6,816 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 226 payments — averaging $401.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$68K
- Nevro Corp.$6K
- Abbott$6K
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Painteq LLC$1K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$687
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$65,90273%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,3208%
- Travel & lodging$9,65811%
- Food & beverage$6,5607%
- Education$1,1981%
- Entertainment$800%
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 | 89 | $68,476 |
| Nevro Corp. | 23 | $6,478 |
| Abbott | 42 | $6,181 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $5,376 |
| Painteq LLC | 7 | $1,440 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 4 | $687 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 9 | $607 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 5 | $576 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 7 | $286 |
| Amgen | 10 | $257 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 10 | $139 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $62 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Carestream Health, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 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.
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$23,223
- SPINEJACK$16,248
- PCD$16,200
- MULTIGEN 2$13,800
- AVAFLEX$9,900
- mild Device Kit$8,564
- AUTOPLEX$6,300
- VERTEPORT$6,000
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$5,161
- NA$4,800
- Omnia$4,136
- IVS - MULTIGEN RF$4,050
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$3,481
- OMNICURVE$2,400
- Senza II$1,800
- SPINEPLEX$1,800
- IVS - MULTIGEN 2RF$1,389
- PAINTEQ$1,319
- CORTOSS$1,200
- VERTAPLEX$1,200
How this compares
$90,718 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 182 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Missouri.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 167 | $1,302 |
| Pregabalin | 69 | $872 |
| Gabapentin | 106 | $871 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 115 | $609 |
| Meloxicam | 111 | $370 |
| Cephalexin | 75 | $319 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 18 | $173 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $75 |
| Prednisone | 31 | $61 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $51 |
| Lorazepam | 15 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Kansas City
- David SherwoodKansas City$2K
- Cielo Navato-DehningKansas City$1K
- Paras ShahKansas City$736
- Mary MiddletonKansas City$571
- Lizette AlvarezSaint Louis$182K
- Heidi HunterCape Girardeau$150K
- Joseph BurrisColumbia$75K
- Alexander ChamessianCreve Coeur$55K
- Jane EmersonColumbia$44K
- Reza FaridColumbia$37K
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.