Has Bradley Kuzel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,809 in general payments to Bradley Kuzel, MD across 31 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 Bradley Kuzel, 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 Bradley Kuzel, 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.

Bradley Kuzel, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Duluth, MNNPI 1558554006

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,809in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $155.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Gemini Medical LLC$2K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Foundation Medical, LLC$391
Arthrex$344
Sonex Health, Inc.$272
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$147
plus $353 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$64313%
Food & beverage$1,91040%
Education$2,25547%

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
Gemini Medical LLC	3	$2,299
Johnson & Johnson	6	$1,002
Foundation Medical, LLC	4	$391
Arthrex	2	$344
Sonex Health, Inc.	7	$272
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	4	$147
Exactech, Inc.	1	$126
Zimmer Biomet	3	$125
Smith+Nephew	1	$102

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

$4,809 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$93,524

Medicare patients

165

Services billed

381

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
Ibuprofen	126	$854
Oxycodone Hcl	113	$240
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	17	$91
Hydromorphone Hcl	11	$27

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Duluth

Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
John SperlingRochester$13.5M
Robert TrousdaleRochester$12.2M
Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10.5M
Bryan Den HartogStillwater$9.1M
Joseph NesslerSartell$8.6M
David LewallenRochester$8.4M
Rafael SierraRochester$5M
Joaquin Sanchez-SoteloRochester$4.1M

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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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