Gene Choi
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Arlington Heights, ILNPI 1871856377
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,975 of the $17,262 with a category attached, or 63.6%. It is spread thinly across 37 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7%. 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 287 payments — averaging $60.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$3K
- Organogenesis Inc.$2K
- Medline Industries LP$2K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$2K
- Kerecis Limited$1K
- plus $4K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1181%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1021%
- Travel & lodging$5,75733%
- Food & beverage$10,97564%
- Education$270%
- Gifts$320%
- Entertainment$2511%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 61 | $3,753 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 30 | $2,645 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 57 | $1,954 |
| Medline Industries LP | 16 | $1,821 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 5 | $1,701 |
| Kerecis Limited | 13 | $1,087 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 4 | $1,067 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 9 | $793 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 29 | $403 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 12 | $334 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 5 | $298 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 5 | $251 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 5 | $203 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $168 |
| Comsort, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $74 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Misonix Inc | 2 | $48 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $44 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $40 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Osteomed LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
| Omeza LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- MEDLINE UNITE$5,492
- Lapiplasty System$1,665
- Oasis$1,340
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,173
- ACTICOAT 4" X 4"$933
- Allevyn Gentle Border 10 x 10cm Ctn 10$933
- PICO$933
- Versajet$933
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$858
- GRAFIX PL$792
- PuraPly$613
- Grafix$551
- PROstep$481
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$470
- Stravix$401
- STRAVIX PL$302
- Restrata Wound Matrix$233
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$191
- Kerecis Omega3 Surgibind$191
- CHARLOTTE$157
How this compares
$17,262 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 11 | $453 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 23 | $267 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Arlington Heights
- Jessica KnightArlington Heights$19K
- 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
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.