Ensor Transfeldt
Orthopaedic Surgery · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1700823671
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,257,873 of the $2,261,707 with a category attached, or 99.8%. Medtronic accounts for 90.1% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $602,456 and has fallen 65.0% since, to $210,639 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 87 payments — averaging $25,997 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2M
- Stryker$225K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,257,873100%
- Travel & lodging$2,4710%
- Food & beverage$1,3630%
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.
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.
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$899,967
- CD HORIZON$687,951
- AVIATOR$224,722
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$168
How this compares
$2,261,707 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Minneapolis
- David PollyMinneapolis$3.3M
- Manuel PintoMinneapolis$1.7M
- Joseph PerraMinneapolis$1.6M
- Timothy GarveyMinneapolis$1.6M
- Amir MehbodMinneapolis$1.3M
- David TemplemanMinneapolis$361K
- Patrick YoonMinneapolis$203K
- Christopher MartinMinneapolis$131K
- Elizabeth ArendtMinneapolis$111K
- Emily WagstromMinneapolis$71K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.