Tyler McKee, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Fort Smith, ARNPI 1902338320
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $39,763 of the $64,425 with a category attached, or 61.7%. Extremity Medical accounts for 70.2% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in AR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 125 payments — averaging $515.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Extremity Medical$45K
- Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC$7K
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$6K
- Stryker$3K
- New Standard Device, LLC Dba Metalogix$2K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$458
- plus $1K from 18 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3000.00 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.
- Skye Orthobiologics LLC$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,3095%
- Consulting fees$39,76362%
- Travel & lodging$5,0168%
- Food & beverage$3,0365%
- Education$13,30121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Extremity Medical | 40 | $45,225 |
| Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC | 10 | $7,285 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 3 | $6,101 |
| Stryker | 34 | $2,728 |
| New Standard Device, LLC Dba Metalogix | 1 | $1,575 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 5 | $458 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 6 | $223 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $182 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $145 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 4 | $92 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $61 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $61 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $46 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Summ Cott Medical | 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.
- IO Freedom$14,250
- Lapidus$5,180
- Lapidus Instruments$5,000
- Omni Mini$2,875
- PROstep$777
- Product Portfolio$397
- IO FiX$257
- PROPHECY$209
- ANCHORAGE$162
- INBONE$160
- Arsenal Ankle 10 Hole 1/3 Tubular Plate$145
- ALLOWRAP$143
- VARIAX$143
- HOFFMANN$120
- Qutenza$117
- ORTHOLOC 3DI CROSSCHECK$114
How this compares
$64,425 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 35 foot & ankle surgery providers in Arkansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 36 | $255 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 22 | $251 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $175 |
| Methylprednisolone | 16 | $110 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Fort Smith
- Kenneth SeiterFort Smith$46K
- Spencer MortensenFort Smith$7K
- Jason SeiterFort Smith$3K
- Gregory ArdoinLittle Rock$101K
- Frederick DaySpringdale$83K
- Jason PleimannFayetteville$38K
- Derrick HenryLittle Rock$18K
- Robert MartinLittle Rock$8K
- Zane MooreConway$5K
- Michael HaugheyJonesboro$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.