John Sakla
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1356874150
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 143 payments — averaging $70.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medwest Associates$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Medline Industries LP$2K
- Organogenesis Inc.$737
- Nevro Corp.$452
- Smith+Nephew$441
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,07321%
- Food & beverage$5,55255%
- Education$2,40024%
- Gifts$320%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medwest Associates | 6 | $2,822 |
| Stryker | 22 | $1,755 |
| Medline Industries LP | 15 | $1,670 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 10 | $737 |
| Nevro Corp. | 11 | $452 |
| Smith+Nephew | 26 | $441 |
| Abbott | 12 | $388 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $241 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $206 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $177 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $128 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 6 | $125 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $124 |
| Novastep Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $91 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $58 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $58 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $49 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $35 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 1 | $30 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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$4,816
- PROstep$568
- PuraPly$480
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$330
- INBONE$169
- Restrata Wound Matrix$153
- LIMFLOW SYSTEM$133
- EXPAREL$124
- PECAPLASTY$118
- VersaWrap$114
- PHALINX$112
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$111
How this compares
$10,056 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 23 | $434 |
| Ciclopirox | 15 | $293 |
| Meloxicam | 73 | $279 |
| Ibuprofen | 27 | $184 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $114 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $62 |
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.