Michael Freehill, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Plymouth, MNNPI 1306894845
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,126,932 of the $3,301,010 with a category attached, or 94.7%. Stryker accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $874,640, 4.3 times the $203,967 reported in 2019. 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.
Across 267 payments — averaging $12,363 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3.3M
- Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc.$15K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- Gemini Medical LLC$894
- Linvatec Corporation$672
- DJO, LLC$63
- plus $19 from 1 others
Across 31 payments — averaging $2241.38 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.
- Stryker$65K
- Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,126,93295%
- Consulting fees$144,9644%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,7500%
- Travel & lodging$19,1031%
- Food & beverage$6,3670%
- Education$8940%
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(2 entities) | 242 | $3,282,610 |
| Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc. | 5 | $15,325 |
| Smith+Nephew | 14 | $1,427 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $894 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $672 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $63 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$2,778,356
- AEQUALIS$376,205
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$70,535
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$47,900
- TORNIER PERFORM ANATOMIC AUGMENTED GLENOID$38,531
- SIMPLICITI$35,684
- TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED AUGMENTED GLENOID$34,400
- Integrity Orthopaedics$15,250
- REUNION$13,600
- BLUEPRINT PSI SYSTEM$9,614
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$6,306
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$2,700
- AEQUALIS REVERSED II$2,100
- T2$1,770
- AXSOS$1,600
- BIORAPTOR$651
- NOVOSTITCH$651
- Hip Pac$651
- LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$410
- BioBrace 23mm$410
How this compares
$3,301,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Plymouth
- 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
- Mark DahlOak Park Heights$4M
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.