RxDoctor Payments Data

Jonathan Wilson, MD

Neurological Surgery · Rapid City, SDNPI 1376727354

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (50.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 62.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $44,180 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $874 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in SD 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.

$153,209in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 238 payments — averaging $643.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$96K
  • Medtronic$56K
  • Piedmont Plus Innovation$814
  • Spine Wave, Inc.$350
  • Arthrex$205
  • Johnson & Johnson$68

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$77,61651%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$48,43032%
  • Travel & lodging$21,55714%
  • Food & beverage$5,6064%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stryker141$95,691
Medtronic(2 entities)78$56,080
Piedmont Plus Innovation11$814
Spine Wave, Inc.3$350
Arthrex4$205
Johnson & Johnson1$68

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

$153,209 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 20 neurological surgery providers in South Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$134,449
Medicare patients
130
Services billed
337

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.

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