Has Tyler Calkins, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,210 in general payments to Tyler Calkins, MD across 49 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Tyler Calkins, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Tyler Calkins, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Tyler Calkins, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1316501323

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — grants (44.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 45.8% of the total.

$11,210in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $228.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$5K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
Stryker$3K
Johnson & Johnson$439
Orthalign Inc$159

What the payments were for

Grants$5,00045%
Travel & lodging$3,43031%
Food & beverage$2,64324%
Education$1371%

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
Smith+Nephew	6	$5,138
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	16	$2,883
Stryker	20	$2,593
Johnson & Johnson	6	$439
Orthalign Inc	1	$159

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

$11,210 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 36 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$31,161

Medicare patients

138

Services billed

139

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.

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Muyibat AdelaniSaint Louis$71K
Parth VyasSaint Louis$47K
Katherine MistrettaSaint Louis$41K
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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.

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