Sandra Cho
Foot & Ankle Surgery · South Bend, INNPI 1770522989
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 156 payments — averaging $44.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Organogenesis Inc.$1K
- Stryker$637
- Covidien LP$550
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$475
- Kerecis Limited$355
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5508%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3455%
- Travel & lodging$86512%
- Food & beverage$5,22575%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 60 | $2,050 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 16 | $1,028 |
| Stryker | 12 | $637 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $550 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $475 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $355 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 4 | $294 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 5 | $192 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $165 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 5 | $142 |
| Vertex | 1 | $122 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $112 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $96 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $95 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $87 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $68 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $67 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $49 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $38 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Bayer | 2 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $29 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- PICO$1,398
- Grafix$1,398
- Versajet$1,398
- COLLAGENASE SANTYL$1,398
- INTEGRA$790
- Kerecis SurgiClose$639
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$512
- Apligraf$466
- Dermagraft$466
- Puraply/Affinity/NuTech$466
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$263
- PRIMATRIX$263
- PuraPly$212
- Kerecis GraftGuide$160
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$150
- ALLOGRAFT BIO-IMPLANTS$143
- ACTISHIELD CF$130
- Viaflow$130
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$128
- Oasis$126
How this compares
$6,985 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 212 foot & ankle surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in South Bend
- Kevin AndersonSouth Bend$46K
- James FlynnSouth Bend$13K
- Steven HerbstMuncie$1.6M
- Douglas BlacklidgeKokomo$689K
- Patrick DeheerIndianapolis$493K
- Scott NevilleMooresville$353K
- Travis MontgomeryWestfield$345K
- Robert Clemency IiiSchererville$215K
- William AdamsGreenfield$178K
- Christopher WintersCarmel$158K
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.