Kelly Schmidt, MD
Neurological Surgery · Kalispell, MTNPI 1811199235
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,409 of the $5,109 with a category attached, or 66.7%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 40.1% of the total.
Across 62 payments — averaging $82.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Monteris Medical Corporation$950
- Livanova USA, Inc.$519
- Kls-martin L.p.$514
- Stryker$442
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$275
- plus $361 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,60031%
- Food & beverage$3,40967%
- Education$1002%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 22 | $2,048 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 5 | $950 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 6 | $519 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 10 | $514 |
| Stryker | 4 | $442 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 3 | $275 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $83 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| GSK | 2 | $45 |
| PTC Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| ITF Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $17 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $17 |
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
$5,109 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 31 neurological surgery providers in Montana.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Kalispell
- Frank BishopKalispell$8K
- Joseph SramekKalispell$6K
- Thomas OrigitanoKalispell$5K
- Joshua KrassKalispell$3K
- Stephen CampbellKalispell$183
- Patrick BurnsKalispell$63
- Raymond TurnerBillings$1.3M
- Carter BeckMissoula$272K
- Marlin RichardsonBillings$35K
- Stuart GoodmanBillings$14K
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.