Michael Bauer, MD
Surgery · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1821136219
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,271 of the $2,852 with a category attached, or 79.7%. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 38.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,278 and has fallen 77.4% since, to $288 in 2025.
Across 83 payments — averaging $34.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Davol Inc.$261
- CSL Behring$118
- Z-medica, LLC$115
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$110
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$94
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$833%
- Travel & lodging$48917%
- Food & beverage$2,27180%
- Gifts$90%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $1,092 |
| Davol Inc. | 8 | $261 |
| CSL Behring | 5 | $118 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 3 | $115 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 3 | $110 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $94 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 5 | $93 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $80 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Acell, Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $50 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Merck | 3 | $48 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $40 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $33 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $20 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $15 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $12 |
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
$2,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 87 surgery providers in South Dakota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 22 | $209 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.