Erik Fritz, MD
Hand Surgery · Edina, MNNPI 1073005575
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,531 of the $2,469 with a category attached, or 62.0%. Arthrex accounts for 71.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,080 and has fallen 93.5% since, to $136 in 2025.
Across 34 payments — averaging $72.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Foundation Medical, LLC$337
- Axogen$150
- Stryker$51
- Medartis Inc.$48
- Smith+Nephew$47
- plus $74 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,53162%
- Food & beverage$93838%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 20 | $1,763 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 6 | $337 |
| Axogen | 1 | $150 |
| Stryker | 1 | $51 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $47 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $31 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$2,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 38 hand surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 24 | $183 |
| Methylprednisolone | 18 | $127 |
| Methocarbamol | 24 | $115 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 29 | $102 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Edina
- John BreenEdina$8K
- Mark UrbanEdina$38
- Adam BakkerEdina$22
- Nishant DwivediBlaine$23K
- Kelsey OvermanPlymouth$19K
- Matthew Tarabochia-GastWoodbury$11K
- Mark FischerRobbinsdale$10K
- Amy MoellerBurnsville$8K
- John DelaneyEagan$8K
- Christina WardSt. Paul$8K
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.