Has Kylin Kovac received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,716 in general payments to Kylin Kovac across 89 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 Kylin Kovac 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 Kylin Kovac 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.

Kylin Kovac

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Idaho Falls, IDNPI 1417261744

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 89 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $869, 9.1 times the $95 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in ID, where the typical reported total is $3,361.

$1,716in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 89 payments — averaging $19.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$361
Smith+Nephew$338
Paragon 28, Inc.$309
Curonix LLC$172
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$127
Active Medical, LLC$94
plus $315 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,716100%

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
Stryker	9	$361
Smith+Nephew	42	$338
Paragon 28, Inc.	3	$309
Curonix LLC	15	$172
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$127
Active Medical, LLC	2	$94
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$56
Medtronic	2	$51
Zimmer Biomet	2	$48
Organogenesis Inc.	3	$47
Amgen(2 entities)	2	$33
Kerecis Limited	1	$32
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$23
Urgo Medical North America, LLC	1	$15
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$10

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.

Bun-Yo-Matic$245
ANCHORAGE$108

How this compares

$1,716 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 49 foot & ankle surgery providers in Idaho.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$732,328

Medicare patients

333

Services billed

2,847

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
Pregabalin	37	$2,159
Nitro-BidNitroglycerin	16	$1,068
Gabapentin	61	$1,060
Tramadol Hcl	61	$896
Allopurinol	54	$463
Naproxen	40	$236
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	14	$190
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	19	$178
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	23	$170
Clonazepam	12	$100

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Idaho Falls

Bryan VandykeIdaho Falls$47K
Bradley JamesIdaho Falls$857
Kaitlin NearyBoise$867K
Dan RobinsonBlackfoot$170K
Kurt KinghornMeridian$150K
Steven RoserBoise$102K
Jonathon WolfMeridian$22K
Christopher ArenaCoeur D Alene$14K
Karson HowardPocatello$14K
Phillip BurkCaldwell$13K

See the full list for Idaho →

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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