Ketan Sharma, MD
Plastic Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1376982686
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (42.6%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Elite Orthopedics, LLC at 26.1% of the total. Among plastic surgery clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 92 payments — averaging $235.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$6K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$5K
- Steelhead Surgical Inc$4K
- Axogen$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$1K
- plus $3K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,25015%
- Travel & lodging$3,71517%
- Food & beverage$5,46125%
- Education$9,21743%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 8 | $5,646 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 14 | $4,712 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 15 | $4,075 |
| Axogen | 11 | $1,672 |
| Arthrex | 6 | $1,622 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 1 | $1,187 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $596 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 8 | $446 |
| Stryker | 5 | $345 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $253 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $245 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $94 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $59 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $58 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $43 |
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.
- Checkpoint Stimulators$4,422
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,445
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,445
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$294
- Acu-Loc Wrist Spanning System$138
- Acu-Loc Wrist Plating System$138
- Hand Fracture System$138
- MENTOR MemoryShape Breast Implant$138
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$121
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$120
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$120
- AMNIOEXCEL$120
- IDRT$120
- FLOWABLE$120
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$118
- BIOLOGICS CONSUMABLES SOFT TISSUE REPAIR AMNION$118
How this compares
$21,643 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 88 plastic 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Hcl | 64 | $599 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 66 | $367 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $102 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Saint Louis
- Donald BuckSaint Louis$945K
- Amber LeisSaint Louis$133K
- Nicholas CalottaSaint Louis$47K
- Justin SacksSaint Louis$36K
- Rachel AnolikSaint Louis$33K
- Dennis NguyenSaint Louis$32K
- Alexander LinSaint Louis$31K
- Robert HaganSaint Louis$23K
- Michael CurtisSaint Louis$21K
- Kelly CurrieSaint 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.