Kurt Mentzer, MD
Hand Surgery · Anchorage, AKNPI 1891882213
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $8,096 of the $11,892 with a category attached, or 68.1%. Stryker accounts for 94.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 79 payments — averaging $150.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$11K
- Alafair Biosciences, Inc.$208
- Si-bone, Inc.$150
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$102
- Acumed LLC$58
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$35
- plus $148 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,09668%
- Food & beverage$2,87124%
- Education$9258%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 61 | $11,190 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $208 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $150 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $58 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $35 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $29 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $25 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Axogen | 1 | $21 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| BD | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$4,473
- INSPACE$2,520
- MAKO$1,564
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$980
- VersaWrap$112
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$106
- InSet System$102
How this compares
Too few hand surgery providers in Alaskato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 64 | $627 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 41 | $449 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 22 | $145 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $135 |
| Celecoxib | 12 | $119 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $74 |
| Methocarbamol | 18 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Anchorage
- Dann LaudermilchAnchorage$7K
- Jessie JanowskiAnchorage$5K
- Mary FoxAnchorage$1K
- Alan SwensonAnchorage$1K
- Michael McNamaraAnchorage$789
- Marc KornmesserAnchorage$289
- Owen AlaAnchorage$145
- Leslie DeanAnchorage$17
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.