RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Sorrell, MD

Surgery · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1972577757

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (36.8%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 57.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,584 and has fallen 77.9% since, to $1,456 in 2025.

$8,997in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $121.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$5K
  • Davol Inc.$3K
  • Z-medica, LLC$229
  • Conmed Corporation$145
  • Boston Scientific$90
  • Covidien LP$75
  • plus $475 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2022%
  • Travel & lodging$3,31337%
  • Food & beverage$2,46627%
  • Education$3,00033%
  • Gifts$160%

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.

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

$8,997 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 87 surgery providers in South Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$151,931
Medicare patients
304
Services billed
743

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
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg59$1,617
Cholestyramine LightCholestyramine20$1,202
Omeprazole14$141
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen17$82
Neomycin Sulfate14$79
Gabapentin19$72
Amitriptyline Hcl13$36
Metronidazole15$33
Lansoprazole11$23
Ondansetron Hcl23$20
Tramadol Hcl16$13

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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