Hart Garner, MD
Neurological Surgery · Coon Rapids, MNNPI 1497808422
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (34.8%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 33 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 49.1% of the total. Among neurological surgery clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 468 payments — averaging $158.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$36K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$16K
- Corelink, LLC$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- Stryker$3K
- Cerapedics Inc.$2K
- plus $9K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,10011%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,30025%
- Travel & lodging$21,44229%
- Food & beverage$25,70535%
- Gifts$300%
- Entertainment$3741%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 282 | $36,317 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 13 | $16,206 |
| Corelink, LLC | 31 | $3,811 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 16 | $3,376 |
| Stryker | 20 | $2,733 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 5 | $2,070 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 11 | $1,638 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $1,535 |
| Arthrex | 19 | $1,173 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 7 | $672 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $554 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 5 | $543 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 10 | $491 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 3 | $453 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 5 | $421 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 8 | $344 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 2 | $249 |
| Axis Spine Technologies Inc. | 2 | $235 |
| Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC | 1 | $189 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $142 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $117 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $110 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $109 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $66 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $32 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 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.
- MagnetOs$15,774
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$14,896
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$4,372
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$3,875
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,489
- UNID_PASS$2,437
- i-FACTOR Putty$1,967
- Rampart Duo Interbody Fusion System$1,500
- AERO$828
- ARIA$828
- ANCHOR L$828
- TRITANIUM$816
- MazorX - Renaissance$779
- ELEVATE$637
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$511
- INVICTUS OPEN$443
- PRODISC C$432
- Intracept$400
- CASCADIA$289
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$282
How this compares
$73,951 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 140 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 52 | $484 |
| Methylprednisolone | 33 | $213 |
| Vitamin D2Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D2) | 27 | $181 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Coon Rapids
- Kyle NelsonCoon Rapids$18K
- Kendall LeeRochester$2.3M
- Michael FinnEdina$1.4M
- Stanley SkinnerMinneapolis$445K
- Rohan LallEdina$227K
- Matthew DaviesDuluth$163K
- Vijay AgarwalRochester$101K
- Frederick HarrisBurnsville$92K
- Andrew GrandeSaint Paul$88K
- Benjamin ElderRochester$69K
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.