Steven Kissel
Foot & Ankle Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1801052451
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 129 payments — averaging $27.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$841
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$725
- Amgen$305
- Smith+Nephew$261
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$139
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$138
- plus $1K from 27 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $6231.09 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$43K
- TEI Medical Inc.$25K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,590100%
- Education$140%
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(2 entities) | 33 | $841 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 21 | $725 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 13 | $305 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $261 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $139 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $138 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $84 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Mission Medical Distribution, LLC | 2 | $73 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $70 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $64 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $36 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Vertex | 1 | $31 |
| Merck | 2 | $25 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $24 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $20 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 1 | $17 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $14 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 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.
- Lapiplasty System$277
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$128
- CERAMENT G$128
- NONE$119
How this compares
$3,604 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 684 foot & ankle surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 125 | $900 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 18 | $575 |
| Cephalexin | 43 | $414 |
| Ciclopirox | 12 | $303 |
| Levofloxacin | 17 | $202 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 14 | $196 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 15 | $168 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 18 | $147 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 13 | $137 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 18 | $117 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in San Antonio
- Richard PollakSan Antonio$6.1M
- Chad HowzeSan Antonio$2.4M
- Ian BarronSan Antonio$162K
- Walter StrashSan Antonio$86K
- Thomas ZgonisSan Antonio$79K
- Joseph CaporussoMcAllen$6M
- Mark DaltonAustin$4.1M
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Graham HamiltonEdinburg$2.1M
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.