Kelly Hynes, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1427505197
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (45.2%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Acumed LLC at 49.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $16,581 and has fallen 77.5% since, to $3,729 in 2025.
Across 101 payments — averaging $338.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$17K
- Stryker$5K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$4K
- Orthoxel Designated Activity Company$3K
- Arthrex$2K
- Novastep Inc.$2K
- plus $3K from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,31121%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,46245%
- Travel & lodging$5,88217%
- Food & beverage$5,39216%
- Gifts$1731%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 19 | $17,014 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 48 | $4,883 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $3,979 |
| Orthoxel Designated Activity Company | 1 | $2,500 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $1,712 |
| Novastep Inc. | 11 | $1,543 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 8 | $1,160 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 4 | $1,159 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $143 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $128 |
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.
- ACUMED$50,312
- APEX FEMORAL NAILING SYSTEM$2,500
- OsteoMed$1,982
- INFINITY$1,343
- INBONE$1,187
- Product Portfolio$944
- PECA Bunion Correction System$846
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$543
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$421
- PECAPLASTY$294
- CARTIVA$159
- NA$143
- Avitus Bone Graft Harvester$139
- NeoSpan$128
- BioBrace 23mm$128
- PROPHECY$125
- CITREFIX$123
- Ankle Plating System$120
- Fibula Rod System$120
- Elbow Plating System$120
How this compares
$34,221 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 163 foot and ankle 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 foot and ankle surgery in Saint Louis
- Jeremy McCormickSaint Louis$1.5M
- Jeffrey JohnsonSaint Louis$944K
- Raymond AbdoSaint Louis$251K
- Vincent SollecitoSaint Louis$221K
- John HoltzmanSaint Louis$129K
- Jesse WolfeSaint Louis$89K
- Seth AndersonSaint Louis$45K
- Lindsay BarthSaint Louis$30K
- Andrew ThomeSaint Louis$24K
- Timothy OldaniSaint Louis$18K
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.