Leesa Galatz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1558387852
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (53.6%), travel and lodging and royalties or licence payments — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medacta USA, Inc. accounts for 95.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $25,050 and has fallen 93.1% since, to $1,723 in 2025.
Across 134 payments — averaging $240.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$31K
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$1K
- Amgen$197
- Stryker$131
- Zimmer Biomet$59
- Suvon Surgical LLC$20
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$5,47217%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,30054%
- Travel & lodging$7,75024%
- Food & beverage$5472%
- Education$1,2004%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 127 | $30,661 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Amgen | 2 | $197 |
| Stryker | 2 | $131 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $59 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 1 | $20 |
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.
- PRIMARY SHOULDER$17,300
- GMK SPHERE$7,750
- MECTA$2,185
- Mecta-C Cervical Cages$975
- Shoulder System$139
- PRO-DENSE$110
How this compares
$32,269 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Saint Louis
- Jay KeenerSaint Louis$2.2M
- John WatsonSaint Louis$1.7M
- Peter ChalmersSaint Louis$603K
- Lionel MetzSaint Louis$428K
- Jon CarlsonSaint Louis$354K
- Alexander AleemSaint Louis$230K
- Rhoderic MirkinSaint Louis$209K
- Sridhar PinnamaneniSaint Louis$188K
- Kenneth SmithSaint Louis$119K
- Benjamin ZmistowskiSaint Louis$118K
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.