Husam Nawas, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · St. Louis, MONPI 1134319510
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 133 payments — averaging $139.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Catalyst Orthoscience$4K
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$4K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$218
- plus $695 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,53819%
- Travel & lodging$7,19539%
- Food & beverage$4,25723%
- Education$3,55219%
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 | 61 | $5,472 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 11 | $4,406 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 13 | $3,739 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $2,279 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 13 | $1,732 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $218 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $131 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $117 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $83 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $50 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Vertex | 2 | $40 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $27 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $23 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Esaote North America, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Healicoil$2,279
- Q-FIX$1,842
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$1,842
- MAKO$1,623
- Catalyst CSR Shoulder System$1,412
- MPO Hip System$1,354
- SALVATION$1,346
- CSR & R1 Reverse Total Shoulder Systems$510
- R1 Reverse Total Shoulder$510
- Archer 3D Software$510
- INSIGNIA$505
- PROCINCH$451
- Catalyst Total CSR$438
- INSPACE$391
- TRIDENT$349
- TRIATHLON$349
- ACCOLADE$223
- Hips-None$182
- Persona$182
- HemiCAP Patella-Femoral$131
How this compares
$18,542 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 455 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 83 | $380 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 22 | $180 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $120 |
| Cephalexin | 27 | $43 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $19 |
| Amoxicillin | 15 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in St. Louis
- Daemeon NicolaouSt. Louis$126K
- Jay PatelSt. Louis$41K
- Matthew SmithColumbia$4M
- Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
- John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
- Alexandra StrongN Kansas City$1.1M
- Thomas McCormackKansas City$852K
- Michael SnyderJefferson City$676K
- Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$674K
- Paul FrewinSullivan$630K
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.