Has Elizabeth Helsper, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,275 in general payments to Elizabeth Helsper, MD across 77 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 Elizabeth Helsper, 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 Elizabeth Helsper, 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.

Elizabeth Helsper, MD

Hand Surgery · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1871942292

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,088 of the $7,275 with a category attached, or 69.9%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 58.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,890 and has fallen 67.7% since, to $934 in 2025.

$7,275in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $94.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$4K
Linvatec Corporation$729
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$586
Johnson & Johnson$308
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$269
Axogen$250
plus $851 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,75024%
Food & beverage$5,08870%
Education$4376%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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	49	$4,283
Linvatec Corporation	4	$729
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	4	$586
Johnson & Johnson	3	$308
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$269
Axogen	3	$250
Aptis Medical, LLC	1	$234
Trimed, Inc.	2	$207
Smith+Nephew	1	$74
Conetic Solutions, Inc.	3	$71
Medartis Inc.	1	$55
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$50
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$50
Encore Medical, LP	1	$49
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	1	$48
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$13

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 hand surgery providers in South Dakotato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$78,016

Medicare patients

163

Services billed

423

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
Meloxicam	70	$215
Tamsulosin Hcl	11	$79
Cephalexin	11	$47
Montelukast Sodium	12	$14
Atorvastatin Calcium	12	$5

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Sioux Falls

Robert VandemarkSioux Falls$2K
Kathlyn DrexlerSioux Falls$2K
David JonesSioux Falls$1K
Matthew AndersonSioux Falls$865
Scott McPhersonSioux Falls$756
Rocio Fuentes BarrowSioux Falls$592
Hillary BeckerSioux Falls$439
Kelly McKnight PurcellSioux Falls$124
Richard CurdSioux Falls$85
Tibor WarganichDakota Dunes$25K

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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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