Jason Kalk, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1427331347
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 377 payments — averaging $46.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ETS Wound Care LLC$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$2K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$857
- Reapplix Inc.$676
- plus $7K from 50 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,71721%
- Food & beverage$13,06174%
- Education$8005%
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.
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.
- MIRRAGEN ADVANCED WOUND MATRIX$2,657
- INTEGRA$1,111
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$864
- Diamondback Peripheral$497
- GRAFIX PL$428
- 3C Patch Kit - Box$423
- Lapiplasty System$398
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$370
- PRIMATRIX$370
- NA$314
- Stravix$271
- N/A$269
- EASY CLIP$254
- ESPRIT$248
- NUZYRA$244
- MOTOBAND$234
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$216
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$209
- STRAVIX PL$151
- Grafix$139
How this compares
$17,578 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $259 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Chicago
- Edgardo Rodriguez CollazoChicago$755K
- Stephanie OexemanChicago$206K
- Jeffrey AlexanderChicago$158K
- Matthew GaroufalisChicago$151K
- George HolmesChicago$134K
- Stephanie AtoyebiChicago$115K
- Simon LeeChicago$86K
- Milap PatelChicago$52K
- Theodore PolizosChicago$47K
- Wonyong LeeChicago$23K
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.