Kyle Flikkema, DO
Sports Medicine · Brooklyn Park, MNNPI 1639663354
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (46.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 43.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $19,410 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $1,672 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 151 payments — averaging $247.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$16K
- Smith+Nephew$8K
- Stryker$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Pinnacle, Inc$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$17,50047%
- Travel & lodging$7,50020%
- Food & beverage$7,15019%
- Education$5,25714%
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 | 21 | $16,322 |
| Smith+Nephew | 25 | $8,404 |
| Stryker | 44 | $3,593 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $2,950 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 6 | $2,059 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 16 | $1,768 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 6 | $720 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 11 | $638 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $400 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $123 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $103 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- MAKO$898
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$833
- Avenir$784
- NOVOSTITCH$731
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$645
- INSPACE$599
- Journey II$538
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$452
- mymobility Platform$298
- Persona$298
- AXSOS$283
- MICRORAPTOR$245
- Q-FIX$245
- Healicoil$237
- TRAUMA$229
- PRO$218
- EQUINOXE$168
- Peri-Loc$150
- PICO$147
- GAMMA$145
How this compares
$37,407 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 28 | $274 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $55 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Brooklyn Park
- Robert LapradeEdina$1.1M
- Jack SkendzelWoodbury$103K
- Ryan FaderEdina$78K
- Christopher LapradeEagan$64K
- Julie DoddsFairmont$61K
- Jeremiah JohnsonEagan$54K
- Saurabh RawallMinneapolis$53K
- Taylor RidleyFridley$46K
- Alicia HarrisonMinneapolis$46K
- Matthew RasmussenMaple Grove$42K
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.