Daemeon Nicolaou, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · St. Louis, MONPI 1427219120
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (51.1%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 75.8% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery 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 183 payments — averaging $688.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$95K
- Synthes GmbH$22K
- Arthrex$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$1K
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$33,60027%
- Speaking & faculty fees$64,40051%
- Travel & lodging$18,07114%
- Food & beverage$8,6227%
- Education$1,2851%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 79 | $95,431 |
| Synthes GmbH | 20 | $22,268 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $2,000 |
| Stryker | 29 | $1,839 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $1,346 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $835 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 2 | $175 |
| My01 Inc. | 2 | $156 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $135 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 4 | $79 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $39 |
| Curvafix, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Axogen | 1 | $12 |
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.
- EVOS$147,367
- TRIGEN InterTAN$60,385
- EVOS MINI$29,919
- TRIGEN$27,799
- TRIGEN Meta-Nail$6,096
- NA$1,259
- PRO$695
- MOTOBAND$394
- GAMMA$272
- MAVERICK$232
- PRIME SERIES$223
- VAC VERAFLO$143
- MY01 Continuous Compartmental Pressure Monitor$138
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$120
- AXSOS$120
- VARIAX$120
- HOFFMANN$120
- HAMMERLOCK$120
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$120
- TFN ADVANCED$120
How this compares
$125,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 455 orthopaedic 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in St. Louis
- Jay PatelSt. Louis$41K
- Matthew SmithColumbia$2.9M
- Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
- John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
- Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$603K
- Katherine BurnsBridgeton$491K
- Jeremy StattonLees Summit$457K
- Lionel MetzSaint Louis$428K
- Michael HellmanLees Summit$365K
- Jon CarlsonSaint Louis$354K
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.