David Lewallen
Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1801874920
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $7,901,570 of the $7,961,886 with a category attached, or 99.2%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,857,580 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $1,457 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 99 payments — averaging $80,423 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$8M
- Acuitive Technologies, Inc$457
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$14
Across 3 payments — averaging $3016.86 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.
- Omnilife Science, Inc$7K
- Amgen$2K
Across 1 payment — averaging $467,159 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Acuitive Technologies, Inc$467K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$7,901,57099%
- Consulting fees$57,0001%
- Travel & lodging$1,9370%
- Food & beverage$1,3790%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 97 | $7,961,415 |
| Acuitive Technologies, Inc | 1 | $457 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Persona$7,901,570
- Trabecular Metal (TM)$19,250
- Hips Product Portfolio$3,250
- PD-Hip-New Product$2,750
- Arcos$616
- Connected Health-MyMobility$375
- TM Augments Revision$119
- G7$107
How this compares
$7,961,886 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Rochester
- Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
- Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
- Robert TrousdaleRochester$12.2M
- John SperlingRochester$12.2M
- Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10.5M
- Rafael SierraRochester$4.9M
- Joaquin Sanchez-SoteloRochester$4M
- Michael TauntonRochester$3.5M
- Arlen HanssenRochester$3.2M
- Matthew AbdelRochester$3.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.