Scott Zehnder, MD
Sports Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1104020957
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (48.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Elite Orthopedics, LLC at 45.0% of the total.
Across 64 payments — averaging $162.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$5K
- Stryker$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Smith+Nephew$298
- Davol Inc.$164
- plus $234 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,40833%
- Food & beverage$1,92319%
- Education$5,04149%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 9 | $4,671 |
| Stryker | 13 | $1,797 |
| Arthrex | 10 | $1,671 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 16 | $1,537 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $298 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $27 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $12 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $11 |
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.
- MAKO$1,491
- Oxford$571
- Avenir$473
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$282
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$164
- TRIATHLON$157
- ACCOLADE$157
- INSIGNIA$157
- ROSA-Knee$106
How this compares
$10,372 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 127 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 149 | $1,161 |
| Methylprednisolone | 36 | $245 |
| Meloxicam | 66 | $130 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $34 |
| Diazepam | 12 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Saint Louis
- Derrick KnapikSaint Louis$72K
- Shalen KoukSaint Louis$46K
- Devon MyersSaint Louis$43K
- William McLaughlinSaint Louis$40K
- Richard SilvermanSaint Louis$27K
- Patrick ReardonSaint Louis$27K
- Brock KnappSaint Louis$24K
- Christopher RothrockSaint Louis$6K
- Michael BurnsSaint Louis$4K
- Larkin WadsworthSaint Louis$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.