RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Friederichs, MD

Sports Medicine · West Fargo, NDNPI 1790703338

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (45.4%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 65.7% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$23,499in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 251 payments — averaging $93.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$15K
  • Arthrex$5K
  • Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
  • Sioux Surgical Inc$577
  • Zimmer Biomet$543
  • Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$178
  • plus $330 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,5006%
  • Travel & lodging$10,02943%
  • Food & beverage$10,67445%
  • Education$1,2956%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stryker162$15,447
Arthrex50$4,844
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.7$1,579
Sioux Surgical Inc9$577
Zimmer Biomet13$543
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.1$178
Vertex4$89
Johnson & Johnson1$76
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC1$66
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.1$48
RSW Medical Company, Inc.1$35
Smith+Nephew1$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

Too few sports medicine providers in North Dakotato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$249,680
Medicare patients
380
Services billed
2,145

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Oxycodone Hcl26$83
Amoxicillin24$28
Cephalexin11$22

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in West Fargo

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