Jeffrey Stych
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Traverse City, MINPI 1275984353
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 30 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.0%. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in MI 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 193 payments — averaging $83.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$3K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$2K
- Vilex LLC$2K
- Medwest Associates$2K
- Organogenesis Inc.$1K
- Epsfl, LLC$998
- plus $6K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1251%
- Travel & lodging$5,20932%
- Food & beverage$8,77654%
- Education$2,07213%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 11 | $2,909 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 23 | $1,975 |
| Vilex LLC | 7 | $1,856 |
| Medwest Associates | 3 | $1,576 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 33 | $1,352 |
| Epsfl, LLC | 4 | $998 |
| Stryker | 15 | $820 |
| Convatec Inc. | 14 | $776 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 31 | $653 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 8 | $591 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $380 |
| Abbott | 7 | $348 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 5 | $333 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $230 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $193 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $178 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $159 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $135 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Biopoly LLC | 1 | $117 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $65 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $27 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
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.
- REDEMPTION$1,770
- INTEGRA$937
- Kerecis SurgiClose$770
- InnovaMatrix AC$566
- PuraPly$455
- RAYOS$370
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$312
- PRIMATRIX$312
- CITREFIX$267
- Kerecis GraftGuide$193
- HOFFMANN$160
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$138
- PHALINX$138
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$138
- METAL HEMI$138
- Portfolio$137
- R3ACT$134
- CellerateRx$132
- Venclose Maven Catheter$126
- KRYSTEXXA$126
How this compares
$16,182 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 384 foot & ankle surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-HydrocortNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Hydrocort | 32 | $2,038 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 30 | $760 |
| Gabapentin | 67 | $646 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 31 | $385 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 49 | $271 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 23 | $260 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 38 | $154 |
| Cephalexin | 17 | $117 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 16 | $116 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $76 |
| Ibuprofen | 13 | $63 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 22 | $32 |
| Prednisone | 16 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Traverse City
- John AndersonGrand Rapids$1.3M
- Brian LoderClinton Township$854K
- Karl DunnClinton Twp$434K
- Anthony LalamaMacomb$421K
- Christopher ZingasSaint Clair Shores$227K
- John MaskillGrand Rapids$202K
- Michael SwordsLansing$189K
- Gregory SheremetaTroy$87K
- Jason WesloskyClinton Township$87K
- Hatim BurhaniGrosse Pointe Woods$77K
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.