Bayard Carlson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1881084853
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.6%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 46.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $23,060 and has fallen 62.2% since, to $8,719 in 2025.
Across 194 payments — averaging $309.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$28K
- Stryker$24K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$7K
- Johnson & Johnson$313
- Si-bone, Inc.$271
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$48
- plus $20 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$26,75045%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,66026%
- Travel & lodging$9,94417%
- Food & beverage$7,05612%
- Education$5811%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 143 | $27,700 |
| Stryker | 29 | $24,470 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 10 | $7,169 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $313 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $271 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$11,500
- CANYON RETRACTOR SYSTEMS$11,500
- MONTEREY AL$10,000
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$9,623
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$7,542
- MagnetOs$6,850
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$1,693
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$1,361
- MASTERGRAFT MATRIX EXT$1,160
- AERO-LL$1,126
- MazorX - Renaissance$622
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$547
- iFuse Implant$257
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$253
- TRAUMA$170
- GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$170
- CLYDESDALE$153
- GAMMA$145
- TRITANIUM$141
- SERRATO$141
How this compares
$59,991 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 533 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 117 | $1,105 |
| Methocarbamol | 54 | $265 |
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | $125 |
| Prednisone | 31 | $86 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 17 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Minneapolis
- David PollyMinneapolis$3.3M
- Ensor TransfeldtMinneapolis$2.3M
- Manuel PintoMinneapolis$1.7M
- Joseph PerraMinneapolis$1.6M
- Timothy GarveyMinneapolis$1.6M
- Amir MehbodMinneapolis$1.3M
- David TemplemanMinneapolis$361K
- Patrick YoonMinneapolis$203K
- Christopher MartinMinneapolis$131K
- Elizabeth ArendtMinneapolis$111K
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.