Has Kathleen McKeon, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $150,735 in general payments to Kathleen McKeon, MD across 216 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 Kathleen McKeon, 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 Kathleen McKeon, 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.

Kathleen McKeon, MD

Hand Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1528229986

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $90,773 of the $150,735 with a category attached, or 60.2%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 51.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $76,584, more than ten times the $998 reported in 2019. Among hand surgery clinicians in AL 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.

$150,735in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 216 payments — averaging $697.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$77K
Acumed LLC$27K
Captiox LLC$19K
Medartis Inc.$15K
Exsomed Corporation$3K
In2bones USA, LLC$3K
plus $6K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$19,21013%
Consulting fees$15,21610%
Speaking & faculty fees$90,77360%
Travel & lodging$18,13212%
Food & beverage$6,6184%
Education$7871%

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	65	$77,201
Acumed LLC	36	$27,393
Captiox LLC	18	$19,377
Medartis Inc.	2	$15,021
Exsomed Corporation	11	$3,254
In2bones USA, LLC	10	$2,774
Prime Surgical, LLC	18	$1,955
Linvatec Corporation	8	$1,436
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	10	$787
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	13	$319
Axogen	4	$296
Johnson & Johnson	4	$294
CGG Medical Inc	1	$131
Bioventus LLC	5	$124
Stryker(2 entities)	2	$112
Smith+Nephew	1	$98
Trimed, Inc.	2	$46
Zimmer Biomet	1	$32
Endo USA, Inc.	2	$31
Conmed Corporation	1	$23
Convatec Inc.	1	$16
Biedermann Motech, Inc.	1	$15

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.

How this compares

$150,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 29 hand surgery providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$218,597

Medicare patients

414

Services billed

2,786

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	186	$382
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	51	$268
Cephalexin	12	$175

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Birmingham

Christopher BeaumontBirmingham$18K
Karlee LoftinBirmingham$12K
Ekkehard BonatzBirmingham$5K
Joseph IngramBirmingham$4K
Kathryn BentleyBirmingham$4K
Erin RansomBirmingham$1K
Hussein TurkiMontgomery$35K
Thomas SellersMontgomery$10K
Jared BurkettMobile$8K
Allison HunterDaphne$8K

See the full list for Alabama →

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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