Ridhi Kratzmeyer, DPM
Foot Surgery · Elgin, ILNPI 1891177978
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 67 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 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 67 payments — averaging $31.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$446
- Stryker$372
- Smith+Nephew$281
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$190
- Kerecis Limited$159
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$147
- plus $501 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,096100%
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. | 11 | $446 |
| Stryker | 8 | $372 |
| Smith+Nephew | 15 | $281 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $190 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $159 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $147 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $63 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Medwest Associates | 1 | $48 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $21 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $15 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $7 |
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.
- CLAW II$121
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$121
How this compares
$2,096 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 51 foot surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 17 | $169 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 13 | $94 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $63 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot surgery in Elgin
- Cory JacobyElgin$4K
- Ali MalikElgin$2K
- Beata Bialon OsterElgin$2K
- Jeeten SinghaWestmont$14K
- Christopher AndersonO'Fallon$13K
- Stephanie WuNorth Chicago$7K
- Jillian CabaiChicago$7K
- William FinnOak Park$5K
- Jeremiah BushmakerGalesburg$5K
- Syed HussainHoffman Estates$4K
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.