Has Mark Dahl received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,992,829 in general payments to Mark Dahl across 125 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Mark Dahl did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Mark Dahl come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Mark Dahl

Orthopaedic Surgery · Oak Park Heights, MNNPI 1508862194

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,821,163 of the $3,992,829 with a category attached, or 95.7%. Stryker accounts for 94.0% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MN 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.

$3,992,829in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 125 payments — averaging $31,943 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$3.8M
Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.$125K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$82K
Globus Medical$34K
Curvafix, Inc.$417
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$216
plus $28 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$3,821,16396%
Consulting fees$114,7403%
Speaking & faculty fees$4170%
Travel & lodging$54,5351%
Food & beverage$1,7590%
Education$2160%

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	43	$3,751,729
Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.	47	$124,657
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	17	$81,595
Globus Medical	15	$34,188
Curvafix, Inc.	1	$417
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$216
Smith+Nephew	1	$28

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.

HOFFMANN$3,750,548
PRECICE$66,643
TrueLok$57,151
PRECICE Intramedullary Limb Lengthening System$48,521
FITBONE$38,728
3 DEGREE$6,353
OPTY-LINE$2,255
AUGMENT INJECTABLE$983
AXSOS$983
VARIAX$983
GAMMA$983
CurvaFix IM Implant$417
TRUELOK SYSTEM$303
LCP$216
ANKLE HINDFOOT NAILING SYSTEM$120

How this compares

$3,992,829 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Other orthopaedic surgery in Oak Park Heights

Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
Robert TrousdaleRochester$12.2M
John SperlingRochester$12.2M
Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10.5M
Bryan Den HartogStillwater$9M
Joseph NesslerSartell$8.6M
David LewallenRochester$8M
Rafael SierraRochester$4.9M
Joaquin Sanchez-SoteloRochester$4M

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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