McKenna Buchheit, PA
Surgical · Saint Louis, MONPI 1255899316
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.0% of the total across 25 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 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 25 payments — averaging $29.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Polynovo North America LLC$161
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$126
- Sientra, Inc.$114
- 180 Medical, Inc.$60
- Si-bone, Inc.$34
- Tolmar, Inc.$34
- plus $204 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$223%
- Food & beverage$71197%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Polynovo North America LLC | 4 | $161 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $126 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Bayer | 2 | $31 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $22 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $21 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| ABC Home Medical Supply, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
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
$733 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 118 surgical 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 20 | $743 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 13 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Saint Louis
- Ciara GlennSaint Louis$9K
- Thomas PrangeSaint Louis$5K
- Sigal FridmanSaint Louis$3K
- Ella BarberSaint Louis$3K
- Dennis HaffordSaint Louis$2K
- Renee KertzSaint Louis$2K
- Aliyah PattersonSaint Louis$2K
- Forrest SimmonsSaint Louis$1K
- Lindsey HellwigSaint Louis$999
- Thomas TopperSaint Louis$819
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.