RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Lahr, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Cedar Rapids, IANPI 1144295858

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (42.8%), food and beverage and other — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 62.1% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,506 and has fallen 52.5% since, to $3,566 in 2025.

$14,969in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 93 payments — averaging $160.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$9K
  • Johnson & Johnson$4K
  • Prism Medical$593
  • Integra Lifesciences Corporation$273
  • Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$127
  • Biocomposites Inc$42
  • plus $195 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$6,40243%
  • Food & beverage$5,45136%
  • Other$3,11621%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$14,969 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 219 orthopaedic surgery providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$125,175
Medicare patients
253
Services billed
1,573

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Diclofenac Sodium58$429
Oxycodone Hcl84$415
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen19$171
Mupirocin12$125
Naproxen35$117
Cephalexin17$113
Methylprednisolone12$71
Tramadol Hcl20$60
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim11$35

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Cedar Rapids

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