Richard Cukelj, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Cleveland, MSNPI 1346827482
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,397 of the $2,016 with a category attached, or 69.3%. Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. accounts for 65.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 20 payments — averaging $81.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$140
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$123
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$114
- Biowound Solutions, Inc.$88
- Reprise Biomedical, Inc.$35
- plus $61 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$61931%
- Food & beverage$1,39769%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 8 | $1,076 |
| Abbott | 1 | $140 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $123 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $114 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
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
Too few foot & ankle surgery providers in Mississippito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 33 | $496 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 14 | $409 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Cleveland
- Marion LundOxford$46K
- John KoskoHattiesburg$40K
- Lori ReedJackson$28K
- Jeremy AdamsTupelo$17K
- Daniel RossFlowood$16K
- Judith SmithBiloxi$8K
- Jeffery VanyperenAmory$6K
- Steven GeorgianLucedale$4K
- Ashley BlackwellJackson$2K
- Stanitia DavisJackson$2K
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.