Mitchell Tarka, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Creve Coeur, MONPI 1235661489
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 70 payments — averaging $100.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$6K
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$294
- Paragon 28, Inc.$284
- Exactech, Inc.$234
- Stryker$145
- Linvatec Corporation$136
- plus $84 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$5,00071%
- Travel & lodging$72910%
- Food & beverage$1,32519%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 13 | $5,878 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 4 | $294 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 44 | $284 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 2 | $234 |
| Stryker | 2 | $145 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $136 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $17 |
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.
- VANTAGE$175
- SILVERBACK$136
- ALLOFIBER$127
- BioBrace 23mm$113
How this compares
$7,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 163 foot and ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Creve Coeur
- Carmina QuirogaCreve Coeur$23K
- Harry VisserCreve Coeur$21K
- Krystle ScottCreve Coeur$13K
- Shirley VisserCreve Coeur$13K
- Jared VisserCreve Coeur$13K
- Jeremy McCormickSaint Louis$1.5M
- Jeffrey JohnsonSaint Louis$944K
- Timothy BadweyKansas City$427K
- Amar PatelLees Summit$272K
- Raymond AbdoSaint Louis$251K
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.