Douglas Diekevers, DPM
Foot Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1740259365
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,061 of the $3,312 with a category attached, or 62.2%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 37.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,798 and has fallen 84.4% since, to $280 in 2023.
Across 49 payments — averaging $67.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$432
- Amgen$159
- Osiris Therapeutics Inc.$149
- Osteomed LLC$71
- plus $84 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,18036%
- Food & beverage$2,06162%
- Education$712%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 12 | $1,236 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $1,180 |
| Smith+Nephew | 20 | $432 |
| Amgen | 2 | $159 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 7 | $149 |
| Osteomed LLC | 2 | $71 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $67 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Lapiplasty System$1,180
- Viaflow$702
- Stravix$256
- ACTISHIELD CF$165
- Actishield$162
- KRYSTEXXA$139
- VERSAJET II$122
- Grafix$106
- GrafixPL$106
How this compares
$3,312 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 51 foot 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 46 | $244 |
| Cefadroxil | 13 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot surgery in Chicago
- Jillian CabaiChicago$7K
- Muriel FreemanChicago$3K
- Sloan MetzChicago$2K
- Tegan ThimeschChicago$2K
- Anna PetrovChicago$717
- Angeles ValdesChicago$702
- Michael NewkirkChicago$241
- David HongChicago$49
- Darrell LatvaChicago$27
- Jeeten SinghaWestmont$14K
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.