Has David Solfelt, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,770 in general payments to David Solfelt, MD across 23 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 David Solfelt, 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 David Solfelt, 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.

David Solfelt, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Stillwater, MNNPI 1467747832

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Stryker accounts for 60.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,228 and has fallen 95.5% since, to $100 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MN, where the typical reported total is $3,921.

$2,770in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $120.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$2K
Zimmer Biomet$725
Si-bone, Inc.$100
Austin Medical Ventures Inc$85
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$83
Smith+Nephew$82
plus $7 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,65860%
Food & beverage$1,11240%

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
Stryker	13	$1,688
Zimmer Biomet	5	$725
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$100
Austin Medical Ventures Inc	1	$85
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$83
Smith+Nephew	1	$82
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$7

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

$2,770 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$12,375

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Stillwater

Bryan Den HartogStillwater$9M
Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
Robert TrousdaleRochester$12.2M
John SperlingRochester$12.2M
Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10.5M
Joseph NesslerSartell$8.6M
David LewallenRochester$8M
Rafael SierraRochester$4.9M
Mark DahlOak Park Heights$4M

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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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