Joel Boyd, MD
Sports Medicine · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1619970571
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 93.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,255 and has fallen 93.6% since, to $846 in 2025. Among sports medicine 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 178 payments — averaging $221.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$37K
- Gemini Medical LLC$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$456
- Foundation Medical, LLC$397
- Stryker$351
- DJO, LLC$108
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,0943%
- Consulting fees$2,0005%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,00048%
- Travel & lodging$9,13023%
- Food & beverage$3,92110%
- Education$4,27111%
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 | 159 | $36,656 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 6 | $1,448 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $456 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 4 | $397 |
| Stryker | 4 | $351 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $108 |
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.
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS KNEE ARTHROPLASTY UNI KNEE$1,134
- ARTHREX$458
- AR-1269S$458
- Gender Solutions$340
- Persona$340
How this compares
$39,416 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 156 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 43 | $153 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Minneapolis
- Saurabh RawallMinneapolis$53K
- Alicia HarrisonMinneapolis$46K
- Jacob RistowMinneapolis$24K
- Caitlin ChambersMinneapolis$16K
- David JewisonMinneapolis$5K
- Marc TompkinsMinneapolis$3K
- Bradley NelsonMinneapolis$2K
- Robert LapradeEdina$1.1M
- Jack SkendzelWoodbury$103K
- Ryan FaderEdina$78K
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.