Bradley Thaemert, MD
Surgery · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1083688279
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.5%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.6% of it on its own, with 36 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,254 and has fallen 95.0% since, to $364 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in SD 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 140 payments — averaging $97.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Highridge Medical LLC$912
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$889
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$482
- Boston Scientific$357
- Johnson & Johnson$275
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$831%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,50018%
- Travel & lodging$6,88450%
- Food & beverage$3,97429%
- Gifts$1941%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 43 | $9,077 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 5 | $912 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $889 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 5 | $482 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $357 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $275 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $248 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $125 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 3 | $115 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $110 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $110 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Acell, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $71 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $60 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 4 | $50 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $48 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Merck | 2 | $34 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $29 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Microline Surgical Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $22 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $16 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $15 |
| Vertex | 1 | $14 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $12 |
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
$13,635 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 87 surgery providers in South Dakota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 22 | $302 |
| Famotidine | 13 | $265 |
| Sucralfate | 12 | $248 |
| Omeprazole | 50 | $205 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 12 | $201 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Juliann ReilandSioux Falls$48K
- Dennis GlattSioux Falls$38K
- Emily MurphySioux Falls$11K
- Sara MarroquinSioux Falls$9K
- Matthew SorrellSioux Falls$9K
- Laura FiguraSioux Falls$6K
- Michael PersonSioux Falls$4K
- Michael BauerSioux Falls$3K
- Andrew-Paul DeebSioux Falls$3K
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.