Donald Pruitt, MD
Hand Surgery · St Louis, MONPI 1659366284
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $2,984 of the $3,404 with a category attached, or 87.7%. Elite Orthopedics, LLC accounts for 88.8% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,059 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $7 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $4,263.
Across 24 payments — averaging $141.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$121
- Arthrex$105
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$81
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$22
- Axogen$17
- plus $34 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$42012%
- Education$2,98488%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 5 | $3,024 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $121 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $105 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $81 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Axogen | 1 | $17 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
How this compares
$3,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 36 hand 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 103 | $600 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 16 | $357 |
| Naproxen | 46 | $311 |
| Cephalexin | 93 | $272 |
| Nabumetone | 17 | $257 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 28 | $139 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $87 |
| Gabapentin | 17 | $70 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $41 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in St Louis
- Jay BridgemanColumbia$40K
- Richard GelbermanSaint Louis$30K
- Tyler KrummenacherSaint Louis$26K
- Wassim MouradSaint Louis$24K
- Georgina GlogovacChesterfield$20K
- Robert BellSaint Louis$20K
- Alexander PalmerLees Summit$12K
- Matthew WintertonSaint Louis$10K
- Nathan FisherSaint Louis$10K
- Nathanael OlsonSaint Louis$9K
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.