Suzanne Elton, MD
Hand Surgery · Overland Park, KSNPI 1972705366
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.2%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Trimed, Inc. accounts for 81.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,543, more than ten times the $106 reported in 2019.
Across 31 payments — averaging $195.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$5K
- Axogen$286
- Acumed LLC$201
- Stryker$171
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$134
- In2bones USA, LLC$106
- plus $204 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50025%
- Travel & lodging$1,87231%
- Food & beverage$2,68444%
- Education$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 10 | $4,967 |
| Axogen | 3 | $286 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $201 |
| Stryker | 3 | $171 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $134 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 1 | $106 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $82 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Tools - WFS$2,237
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$249
- ACUMED$144
- NanoPhix Implant$144
- InFrame Implant$144
- Geminus$134
- Align$134
- IJS$134
- Implate$134
- VARIAX$133
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$125
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$125
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$125
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$125
- CoLag$106
- IBS$106
- NeoSpan$106
How this compares
$6,070 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 23 hand surgery providers in Kansas.
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.
Other hand surgery in Overland Park
- John WalkerOverland Park$3K
- Valerie DeardorffOverland Park$2K
- Stephen HiattOverland Park$420
- Thomas McQuillanKansas City$28K
- Zachary HansonWichita$24K
- Mark WinstonLeawood$16K
- Jacob SneddonOlathe$12K
- Lisa FrantzWichita$7K
- Erin MurrayLeawood$6K
- Mark McNemarGalena$5K
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.