Robert Barton, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Kansas City, KSNPI 1518595628
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (45.6%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medwest Associates at 47.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,089 and has fallen 88.6% since, to $238 in 2024.
Across 30 payments — averaging $175.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medwest Associates$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$387
- Polynovo North America LLC$236
- Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc.$125
- Amgen$116
- plus $402 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$64512%
- Food & beverage$2,22442%
- Education$2,40046%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medwest Associates | 5 | $2,484 |
| Stryker | 14 | $1,519 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $387 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $236 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Amgen | 1 | $116 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $82 |
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.
- INTEGRA$916
- PROstep$589
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$305
- PRIMATRIX$305
- Physio-Stim$229
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$170
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$164
- VARIAX$153
- Novosorb BTM$128
- Topical oxygen chamber for extremities$125
- KRYSTEXXA$116
- FIXOS$110
- TenoTac$107
How this compares
$5,269 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 40 foot & ankle surgery providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonium Lactate | 20 | $427 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Kansas City
- Greg HortonKansas City$1.1M
- Zhipeng YangKansas City$25K
- Radmila SamardzijaKansas City$5K
- William TuckerKansas City$3K
- Daniel SheadKansas City$64
- Melissa JournotLeawood$26K
- Patrick McGregorLawrence$24K
- Andrea DrielingHutchinson$16K
- John GalliganLawrence$12K
- Lucas CosensSalina$10K
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.