Has Katherine Burns, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $490,990 in general payments to Katherine Burns, MD across 483 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Katherine Burns, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Katherine Burns, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Katherine Burns, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Bridgeton, MONPI 1326090515

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $307,110 of the $490,990 with a category attached, or 62.5%. Arthrex accounts for 72.8% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $112,062, 2.8 times the $40,552 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$490,990in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 483 payments — averaging $1016.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$357K
Limacorporate S.p.a.$98K
Lima USA, Inc.$13K
Elite Orthopedics, LLC$9K
Smith+Nephew$8K
Stryker$3K
plus $2K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$21,8894%
Consulting fees$105,16421%
Speaking & faculty fees$307,11063%
Travel & lodging$39,1138%
Food & beverage$12,3393%
Education$5,3751%

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	288	$357,287
Limacorporate S.p.a.	31	$98,079
Lima USA, Inc.	41	$13,398
Elite Orthopedics, LLC	60	$8,795
Smith+Nephew	12	$8,101
Stryker	29	$2,947
Encore Medical, LP	3	$653
Zimmer Biomet	7	$627
Linvatec Corporation	2	$366
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$215
Peerless Surgical Inc.	1	$150
Kerecis Limited	2	$137
Exactech, Inc.	1	$81
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$50
Shoulder Innovations, Inc.	1	$48
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$35
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$20

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.

SMR$57,983
SMR Shoulder$52,473
TWINFIX$6,113
REAL INTELLIGENCE$6,000
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,010
DJO SURGICAL$696
Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$354
LINVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$298
LINVATEC EXTREMITIES$298
LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$298
LINVATEC HIP PRESERVATION SYSTEM$298
Product Portfolio$192
AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$176
AEQUALIS PERFORM$176
TRIATHLON$172
TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$172
MAKO$172
INSIGNIA$172
FREEDOM WRIST$168
PYRO MCP$168

How this compares

$490,990 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 455 orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$149,084

Medicare patients

221

Services billed

632

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
Celecoxib	116	$2,307
Oxycodone Hcl	256	$1,464
Tizanidine Hcl	98	$591
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	34	$493
Famotidine	75	$415
Gabapentin	81	$394
Methylprednisolone	60	$350
Doxycycline Hyclate	26	$346
Diclofenac Sodium	11	$285
Ibuprofen	19	$231
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	36	$214
Omeprazole	22	$135
Hydroxyzine Hcl	17	$127
Tramadol Hcl	35	$101
Meloxicam	14	$82

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Bridgeton

Gregory NelsonBridgeton$52K
Matthew SmithColumbia$2.9M
Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$603K
Jeremy StattonLees Summit$457K
Lionel MetzSaint Louis$428K
Michael HellmanLees Summit$365K
Jon CarlsonSaint Louis$354K
Akin CilKansas City$318K

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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.

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