Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Ryan W. Couchman, MD

Individual provider Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1497740021

Ryan W. Couchman, MD practises Orthopedic Surgery in St. Louis, Missouri. Graduated from St Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1987, 39 years ago. Practices with Mercy Clinic Surgical Specialists LLC, a 180-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Missouri.

Years since qualifying
39
Trained at
St Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons
Licensed in
MO
In the registry since
2005
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

12855 N Forty Dr Ste 125
St. Louis, MO 63141 Not confirmed with CMS for 15 years — call before visiting
Phone: (314) 966-0111
Fax: (314) 966-1023
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Specialties & licences

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207X00000X · Licence R1P03 (MO)

Record details

NPI number1497740021
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedSeptember 20, 2005
Last updated in NPPESOctober 21, 2011

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
Medical schoolST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Graduated 1987 (39 years in practice)
Group practice Mercy Clinic Surgical Specialists Llc — 180 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
Practice locations4 on file with Medicare

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Knee replacement 50 times · 79th percentile
Hip replacement 26 times · 73rd percentile
Lower limb (leg) arthroscopy (minimally invasive joint repair) 1–10 times
Removal of tissue 1–10 times
Upper limb (arm) arthroscopy (minimally invasive joint repair) 1–10 times

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients313
Services billed 9,010 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age75

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Food and Beverage $372 19 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Education $134 2 payments · educational material or training, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

  • Mercy Hospital South Hospital · Saint Louis, MO
  • Mercy Hospital St Louis Hospital · Saint Louis, MO · listed as Mercy Hospitals East Communities Mercy Hospital St Louis
  • Evertrue Home Health Home health agency · St. Louis, MO
  • Mercy Home Health Home health agency · Saint Louis, MO

Also affiliated with 1 inpatient rehabilitation facility, which CMS identifies by certification number only.

Colleagues at Mercy Clinic Surgical Specialists LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 180 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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