Dana Berns, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Tinley Park, ILNPI 1174904494
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 63 payments — averaging $215.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Medwest Associates$3K
- Arthrex$2K
- Kerecis Limited$1K
- Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc$735
- plus $481 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,20031%
- Travel & lodging$1,84014%
- Food & beverage$4,17231%
- Education$3,38125%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 5 | $4,471 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 22 | $2,635 |
| Medwest Associates | 4 | $2,581 |
| Arthrex | 15 | $1,602 |
| Kerecis Limited | 6 | $1,088 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 2 | $735 |
| Novastep Inc. | 1 | $184 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $123 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $19 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $16 |
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.
- INFINITY$1,480
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,259
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$750
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$653
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$595
- HOFFMANN$319
- T2$311
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$275
- Kerecis Omega3 Surgibind$201
- CREED Ortholocent Implants$184
- FIXOS$161
- AXSOS$161
- LIMFLOW SYSTEM$105
How this compares
$13,593 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 23 | $405 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 29 | $138 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 11 | $90 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $69 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 15 | $66 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Tinley Park
- Douglas PacaccioRockford$4.3M
- Anand VoraLibertyville$3.2M
- Lowell WeilMount Prospect$2.4M
- Matthew SorensenAlgonquin$1.1M
- Edgardo Rodriguez CollazoChicago$755K
- David GarrasOrland Park$658K
- Patrick McEneaneyCary$586K
- Brian BurgessNaperville$496K
- Kyle PearsonMorris$208K
- Stephanie OexemanChicago$206K
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.