Andrew Highum, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · New Ulm, MNNPI 1790732907
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Stryker accounts for 92.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,151 and has fallen 79.0% since, to $661 in 2025.
Across 45 payments — averaging $117.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Trilliant Surgical LLC.$311
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$36
- Paragon 28, Inc.$18
- Smith+Nephew$18
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$13
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,52148%
- Food & beverage$2,77152%
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) | 38 | $4,896 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 3 | $311 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
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.
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$1,427
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$1,197
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$461
- CITREFIX$339
- FLEXBAND$322
- Arsenal$230
- ALLOFIBER$174
- PROPHECY$171
- ALLOMATRIX$165
- FLEXBAND PLUS$161
- ANCHORAGE$139
- FIXOS$135
How this compares
$5,292 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 102 foot & ankle surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 33 | $403 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 34 | $165 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $98 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in New Ulm
- Johannes CoetzeeEdina$4.7M
- Troy BoffeliSaint Paul$1.7M
- Jeffrey SeyboldEdina$270K
- Kyle AbbenSt Louis Park$130K
- Collin MesserlySaint Paul$50K
- Ryan ReinkingDuluth$48K
- Kevin MahoneyMarshall$39K
- Bethany StaehnkeCrookston$27K
- Amber WibbelsRoseau$24K
- Ruixian YueWoodbury$22K
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.