Katherine Foerster, MD
Trauma Surgery · Springfield, MONPI 1679066922
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $8,750 of the $12,156 with a category attached, or 72.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,749 and has fallen 77.0% since, to $2,240 in 2025.
Across 37 payments — averaging $328.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Davol Inc.$282
- Polynovo North America LLC$200
- Conmed Corporation$64
- Johnson & Johnson$63
- Haemonetics Corporation$50
- plus $54 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,29819%
- Food & beverage$1,1089%
- Education$8,75072%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 24 | $11,444 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $282 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $200 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $64 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $63 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $37 |
| Mimedx Group, 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.
- DAVINCI XI$8,750
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,420
- Phasix Mesh$252
- Novosorb BTM$111
How this compares
$12,156 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 30 trauma surgery providers in Missouri.
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.
Other trauma surgery in Springfield
- Mark NicolasSpringfield$13K
- Joshua McElderrySpringfield$8K
- Robert JohnsonSpringfield$5K
- Kevin KirklandSpringfield$3K
- Obeid IlahiSaint Louis$14K
- Kulsoom GunnSaint Louis$13K
- Thomas ReardonNorth Kansas City$12K
- Lisa ToelleKansas City$9K
- Pascal NyachoweKansas City$7K
- Leo Andrew BenedictKansas City$7K
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.