Louis Saeger, MD
Pain Medicine · Edina, MNNPI 1316989007
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.2%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stimwave Technologies Incorporated at 30.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $15,688 and has fallen 86.9% since, to $2,061 in 2025.
Across 128 payments — averaging $220.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$9K
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$6K
- Wenzel Spine, Inc.$4K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$1K
- plus $4K from 14 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1250.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,75017%
- Travel & lodging$14,16350%
- Food & beverage$8,25829%
- Gifts$2391%
- Entertainment$8173%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 34 | $8,706 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 7 | $5,891 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 4 | $3,884 |
| Boston Scientific | 20 | $2,403 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 7 | $1,829 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 12 | $1,181 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 8 | $1,072 |
| Spinesource, Inc. | 5 | $1,064 |
| Surgentec | 1 | $659 |
| Abbott | 13 | $277 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $276 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $239 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 4 | $237 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $91 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $90 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Intracept$3,559
- primaLOK$2,912
- Implant$2,274
- Superion ISS$1,655
- Catamaran Sacroiliac Joint Fixation System$854
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$832
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$671
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$244
- CAT-SIJ Fixation System$210
- SPRINT PNS System$180
- CLICK$149
- mild Device Kit$132
- Evoke$130
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$127
- Proclaim IPG$115
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$109
- StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$109
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$109
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$109
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$109
How this compares
$28,227 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 88 pain 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Edina
- Richard StaynerEdina$105K
- David SchultzEdina$99K
- Matthew ThorsonEdina$59K
- Sherri HaasEdina$51K
- Andrew WillEdina$22K
- Aaron BloomEdina$6K
- Rachel WilsonEdina$3K
- Daniel SippleEdina$2K
- Jonathan HagedornRochester$83K
- Michael McEntireRochester$70K
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.