Eric Hart
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Bismarck, NDNPI 1942497243
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (41.3%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sioux Surgical Inc at 45.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,655 and has fallen 74.5% since, to $422 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in ND, where the typical reported total is $5,483.
Across 92 payments — averaging $59.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sioux Surgical Inc$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$873
- Kerecis Limited$415
- Smith+Nephew$362
- Johnson & Johnson$255
- Stryker$222
- plus $872 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,02137%
- Food & beverage$2,26241%
- Education$1,20022%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sioux Surgical Inc | 6 | $2,484 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $873 |
| Kerecis Limited | 6 | $415 |
| Smith+Nephew | 18 | $362 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $255 |
| Stryker | 7 | $222 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 9 | $213 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $91 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 5 | $73 |
| Vertex | 3 | $56 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $43 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $41 |
| Merck | 3 | $34 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| RSW Medical Company, 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.
How this compares
$5,483 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 23 foot & ankle surgery providers in North Dakota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonium Lactate | 58 | $741 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 82 | $614 |
| Gabapentin | 84 | $567 |
| Allopurinol | 48 | $331 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $261 |
| Mupirocin | 46 | $255 |
| Colchicine | 21 | $178 |
| Meloxicam | 47 | $168 |
| Methylprednisolone | 24 | $165 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $92 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 17 | $90 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 11 | $55 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $30 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Bismarck
- Kevin KoesterBismarck$10K
- Andrew KnudsenBismarck$2K
- Brian GaleBismarck$900
- Gregory IwaasaBismarck$82
- Thomas NordquistMinot$23K
- Timothy UglemFargo$18K
- Robert RenschlerFargo$17K
- Rachael RenschlerJamestown$17K
- Yashraj ChauhanGrand Forks$16K
- John NaughtonFargo$15K
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.