John Thometz
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Crystal Lake, ILNPI 1386165389
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 104 payments — averaging $102.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Kerecis Limited$3K
- Surgenex LLC$932
- Convatec Inc.$699
- Abbott$503
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$492
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,603100%
- Education$280%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 30 | $3,245 |
| Kerecis Limited | 11 | $2,617 |
| Surgenex LLC | 7 | $932 |
| Convatec Inc. | 7 | $699 |
| Abbott | 5 | $503 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 5 | $492 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $431 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $251 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $216 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $202 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $155 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 8 | $136 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $86 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $57 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 1 | $43 |
| Osteomed LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Nevro Corp. | 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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$4,880
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$3,092
- Kerecis SurgiClose$1,866
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$1,774
- SurGraft$817
- SurMatrix$817
- ArdeoGraft$817
- PelloGraft$817
- RenoGraft$817
- HOFFMANN$815
- InnovaMatrix AC$628
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$503
- CITREFIX$503
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$503
- Kerecis GraftGuide$467
- PROCLAIM$458
- VARIAX$343
- T2$333
- Actishield$310
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$281
How this compares
$10,631 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 35 | $320 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $74 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Crystal Lake
- Rimvydas StatkusCrystal Lake$59K
- Adam BuffingtonCrystal Lake$28K
- Douglas PacaccioRockford$4.3M
- Anand VoraLibertyville$3.2M
- Lowell WeilMount Prospect$2.4M
- Matthew SorensenAlgonquin$1.1M
- Edgardo Rodriguez CollazoChicago$755K
- David GarrasOrland Park$658K
- Patrick McEneaneyCary$586K
- Brian BurgessNaperville$496K
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.