Gabriel Cardenas
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Maryville, ILNPI 1043521719
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (45.8%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 69.5% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $8,731 and has fallen 52.7% since, to $4,131 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 101 payments — averaging $258.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$18K
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$4K
- Stryker$2K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$95
- DJO, LLC$73
- plus $322 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$11,97146%
- Consulting fees$3,36013%
- Speaking & faculty fees$750%
- Travel & lodging$2,2969%
- Food & beverage$3,46713%
- Education$4,96519%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 22 | $18,150 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 21 | $4,435 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 33 | $1,805 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 6 | $1,255 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $95 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $73 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 5 | $71 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $54 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $31 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Axogen | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $17 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $11 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
How this compares
$26,133 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Terbinafine Hcl | 230 | $4,980 |
| Gabapentin | 95 | $3,093 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 11 | $2,948 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 21 | $1,398 |
| Febuxostat | 20 | $1,175 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 71 | $731 |
| Ciclopirox | 20 | $584 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 13 | $359 |
| Allopurinol | 24 | $294 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 25 | $281 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 29 | $107 |
| Mupirocin | 11 | $105 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $80 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $57 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 12 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Maryville
- Douglas PacaccioRockford$4.1M
- Anand VoraLibertyville$3.2M
- Lowell WeilMount Prospect$2.2M
- Matthew SorensenAlgonquin$1.1M
- Edgardo Rodriguez CollazoChicago$755K
- David GarrasOrland Park$658K
- Patrick McEneaneyCary$570K
- Brian BurgessNaperville$488K
- 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.