Has Derrick Foge, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,369 in general payments to Derrick Foge, MD across 28 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 Derrick Foge, 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 Derrick Foge, 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.

Derrick Foge, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Anchorage, AKNPI 1669890216

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,005 of the $7,369 with a category attached, or 81.5%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 58.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,596 and has fallen 95.5% since, to $207 in 2024.

$7,369in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $263.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$4K
Synthes GmbH$2K
Medtronic$404
Johnson & Johnson$371
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$270
Stryker$150
plus $26 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$6,00581%
Food & beverage$1,36419%

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
Globus Medical	8	$4,312
Synthes GmbH	2	$1,837
Medtronic	2	$404
Johnson & Johnson	11	$371
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$270
Stryker	1	$150
Arthrex	1	$14
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$11

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 Alaskato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$367,579

Medicare patients

140

Services billed

977

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
Gabapentin	34	$435
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	12	$198

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Anchorage

Iain ElliottAnchorage$30K
James EuleAnchorage$17K
Gene FalkowskiAnchorage$5K
Upshur SpencerAnchorage$4K
Mark FlanumAnchorage$3K
Curtis MinaAnchorage$3K
Davis PetersonAnchorage$272
Steven HumphreysSoldotna$199K
Stewart KerrFairbanks$51K
John AndreshakSoldotna$22K

See the full list for Alaska →

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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