Has Hinrich Staecker, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $499,486 in general payments to Hinrich Staecker, MD across 128 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Hinrich Staecker, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Hinrich Staecker, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Hinrich Staecker, MD

Otolaryngology · Kansas City, KSNPI 1518909050

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $378,543 of the $499,486 with a category attached, or 75.8%. Med-el Corporation accounts for 93.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $147,052 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $76 in 2025. Among otolaryngology clinicians in KS 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.

$499,486in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 128 payments — averaging $3902.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Med-el Corporation$467K
Otonomy, Inc.$29K
Amgen$3K
Astellas Pharma Inc$494
Medtronic$76
Boehringer Ingelheim$24

$677,476in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $84,685 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Novartis$676K
Med-el Corporation$2K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$378,54376%
Speaking & faculty fees$24,8465%
Travel & lodging$87,84518%
Food & beverage$5,7181%
Education$2,0850%
Charitable contribution$4490%

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
Med-el Corporation	119	$466,737
Otonomy, Inc.	4	$29,155
Amgen	1	$3,000
Astellas Pharma Inc	1	$494
Medtronic	2	$76
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$24

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.

Mi1250 SYNCHRONY 2 FLEXsoft$314,371
BCI 602 Kit$177,020
ADHEAR Professional Kit$176,054
MED-EL Maestro Cochlear Implant System$150,839
VIBRANT Soundbridge Middle Ear Implant and BONEBRIDGE System$13,599
ADHEAR System$3,822
TEPEZZA$3,000

How this compares

$499,486 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 87 otolaryngology providers in Kansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$53,171

Medicare patients

175

Services billed

298

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
Ofloxacin	39	$1,083
Clonazepam	90	$910
Triamterene-HydrochlorothiazidTriamterene/Hydrochlorothiazid	66	$634
Fluticasone Propionate	36	$627
Ipratropium Bromide	13	$520
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	12	$402
Doxycycline Hyclate	12	$397
Topiramate	17	$299
Hydrochlorothiazide	31	$273
Amitriptyline Hcl	18	$217
Methylprednisolone	21	$172
Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen	33	$113
Diazepam	19	$108
Cephalexin	30	$86
Lorazepam	16	$72

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Kansas City

Jennifer VillwockKansas City$26K
Meha FoxKansas City$12K
Kiran KakaralaKansas City$10K
Andres BurKansas City$10K
Christopher LarsenKansas City$8K
John KrietKansas City$6K
Justin BondKansas City$4K
Mohammad Ameen AmanianKansas City$3K
Frantzlee LacreteKansas City$3K
Jennifer DieboltKansas City$3K

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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.

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