David Verst, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Hailey, IDNPI 1164465977
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $9,212 of the $9,976 with a category attached, or 92.3%. Innovasis Inc accounts for 81.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 20 payments — averaging $498.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Innovasis Inc$8K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Medtronic$370
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$155
- Boston Scientific$20
- Abbott$18
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9,21292%
- Food & beverage$7648%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Innovasis Inc | 3 | $8,124 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $1,290 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $370 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $155 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
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
Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Idahoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 89 | $597 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 68 | $338 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 107 | $314 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 54 | $295 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 76 | $294 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $134 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Hailey
- Roland KentPost Falls$1.1M
- Samuel JorgensonMeridian$381K
- Daniel BlizzardPost Falls$269K
- David GlassmanPost Falls$77K
- William BradleyMeridian$70K
- Gregory DietrichLewiston$42K
- Stephen HansenPocatello$15K
- Mark WeightIdaho Falls$8K
- Benjamin BlairPocatello$1K
- Lynn StrombergIdaho Falls$1K
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.