Steven Kipferl, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Fox River Grove, ILNPI 1891177838
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 123 payments — averaging $40.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Organogenesis Inc.$2K
- Smith+Nephew$444
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$267
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$158
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$108
- plus $625 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,27526%
- Travel & lodging$74615%
- Food & beverage$2,91959%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 24 | $1,814 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 24 | $1,525 |
| Smith+Nephew | 20 | $444 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 22 | $267 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $158 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 5 | $108 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $63 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $49 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $34 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $22 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
How this compares
$4,940 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 14 | $257 |
| Prednisone | 21 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Fox River Grove
- 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.