Sharif Denden
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Evergreen Park, ILNPI 1578093795
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 135 payments — averaging $76.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medline Industries LP$2K
- Medwest Associates$2K
- Amniox Medical, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$629
- Smith+Nephew$591
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,31422%
- Food & beverage$5,41552%
- Education$2,08220%
- Gifts$320%
- Charitable contribution$4905%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medline Industries LP | 18 | $2,176 |
| Medwest Associates | 4 | $2,139 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 4 | $1,702 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 28 | $1,533 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 11 | $629 |
| Smith+Nephew | 25 | $591 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 7 | $217 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $194 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $179 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $147 |
| Extremity Medical | 3 | $133 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $124 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $88 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $83 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $69 |
| Abbott | 3 | $62 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $55 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Normatec Industries, LP | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- MEDLINE UNITE$4,988
- NEOX$1,642
- CLARIX$1,642
- Restrata Wound Matrix$396
- ANCHORAGE$173
- AUGMENT$158
- Stravix$144
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$142
- Kimyrsa$124
- EXPAREL$124
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$123
How this compares
$10,333 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 555 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 74 | $1,987 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 55 | $900 |
| Clotrimazole | 35 | $480 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 32 | $374 |
| Methylprednisolone | 53 | $293 |
| Gabapentin | 70 | $241 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 24 | $215 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 12 | $192 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $75 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Evergreen Park
- Douglas PacaccioRockford$4.3M
- Anand VoraLibertyville$3.2M
- Lowell WeilMount Prospect$2.4M
- Matthew SorensenAlgonquin$1.1M
- Edgardo Rodriguez CollazoChicago$755K
- David GarrasOrland Park$658K
- Patrick McEneaneyCary$586K
- Brian BurgessNaperville$496K
- Kyle PearsonMorris$208K
- Stephanie OexemanChicago$206K
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.