Has Cody Foster, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $36,412 in general payments to Cody Foster, MD across 241 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 Cody Foster, 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 Cody Foster, 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.

Cody Foster, MD

Pain Medicine · Coon Rapids, MNNPI 1760914725

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (51.5%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 68.8% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pain medicine clinicians in MN 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.

$36,412in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 241 payments — averaging $151.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$25K
Abbott$6K
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
Merit Medical Systems Inc$700
Boston Scientific$167
plus $448 from 9 others

$205in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $205.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$205

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7002%
Speaking & faculty fees$18,73851%
Travel & lodging$9,42426%
Food & beverage$7,55121%

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	149	$25,042
Abbott	49	$6,190
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	13	$2,219
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	9	$1,646
Merit Medical Systems Inc	2	$700
Boston Scientific	2	$167
Nevro Corp.	2	$139
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	3	$87
Curonix LLC	4	$71
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	2	$52
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$33
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$18
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$17
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$16
Convatec Inc.	1	$15

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

$36,412 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 88 pain medicine providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$293,756

Medicare patients

591

Services billed

1,828

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
Cephalexin	185	$1,724
Mupirocin	172	$1,289
Naloxone Hcl	13	$937
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	130	$891
Clindamycin Hcl	81	$767
Oxycodone Hcl	108	$667
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	37	$238
Tramadol Hcl	19	$47

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Coon Rapids

Erin BettendorfCoon Rapids$20K
Richard StaynerEdina$105K
David SchultzEdina$99K
Jonathan HagedornRochester$83K
Michael McEntireRochester$70K
Ronald BoedingMaple Grove$68K
Matthew ThorsonEdina$59K
Sherri HaasEdina$51K
Katelyn Parker-McgillAlexandria$32K
Louis SaegerEdina$28K

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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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