Eric Baird, MD
Surgery · Idaho Falls, IDNPI 1376565473
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,054 of the $5,688 with a category attached, or 71.3%. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.9%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,397 and has fallen 95.5% since, to $108 in 2025.
Across 44 payments — averaging $129.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- AbbVie$901
- Globus Medical$863
- Focal Therapeutics, Inc.$635
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$580
- Bioptics, Inc.$509
- plus $952 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,05471%
- Food & beverage$1,54327%
- Gifts$902%
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 | 5 | $1,248 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $901 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $863 |
| Focal Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $635 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $580 |
| Bioptics, Inc. | 2 | $509 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $415 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 4 | $108 |
| Nanohive Medical LLC | 1 | $92 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $90 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $67 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $60 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$1,166
- ALIF$818
- STRATTICE$787
- BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$580
- Localizer$509
- BioZorb$348
- Trunode$348
- TRIDENT$348
How this compares
$5,688 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 136 surgery providers in Idaho.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 69 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Idaho Falls
- Tait OlavesonIdaho Falls$42K
- David ChamberlainIdaho Falls$10K
- Adam MezianiIdaho Falls$8K
- Brodi SmithIdaho Falls$4K
- Brian CoatesBoise$159K
- Andrew McRobertsPocatello$67K
- John PenningsPost Falls$47K
- Reese VernerMeridian$47K
- Rhiana MenenBoise$39K
- Philip HambyMcCall$33K
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.