Kevin Witte, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Blue Springs, MONPI 1760628093
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Midwest Medical Resources Inc at 27.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,236, 7.3 times the $307 reported in 2019.
Across 85 payments — averaging $75.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Midwest Medical Resources Inc$2K
- Linvatec Corporation$1K
- Stryker$892
- Titan Surgical Group, LLC$617
- Smith+Nephew$455
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$343
- plus $1K from 19 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1567.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Smith+Nephew$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,75027%
- Travel & lodging$62810%
- Food & beverage$3,42753%
- Education$61710%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Midwest Medical Resources Inc | 2 | $1,750 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 15 | $1,304 |
| Stryker | 16 | $892 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $617 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $455 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $343 |
| ERMI LLC | 3 | $181 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $151 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 8 | $149 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 3 | $131 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $43 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $33 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Linkbio Corp | 1 | $22 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 2 | $17 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $12 |
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
$6,422 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 455 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 56 | $1,205 |
| Gabapentin | 79 | $725 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 77 | $590 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 33 | $260 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 30 | $224 |
| Meloxicam | 63 | $199 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $188 |
| Methylprednisolone | 21 | $177 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $54 |
| Amoxicillin | 34 | $46 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Blue Springs
- Matthew SmithColumbia$2.9M
- Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
- John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
- Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$603K
- Katherine BurnsBridgeton$491K
- Jeremy StattonLees Summit$457K
- Lionel MetzSaint Louis$428K
- Michael HellmanLees Summit$365K
- Jon CarlsonSaint Louis$354K
- Akin CilKansas City$318K
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.