Nathan Hendrickson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1306227632
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 64.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $16,924, 6.7 times the $2,517 reported in 2019.
Across 160 payments — averaging $210.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$22K
- Cerapedics Inc.$3K
- Si-bone, Inc.$3K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Arthrex$1K
- Foundation Medical, LLC$909
- plus $1K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,82547%
- Travel & lodging$8,31325%
- Food & beverage$7,87223%
- Education$1,7265%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 77 | $21,744 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 27 | $3,183 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 10 | $2,879 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 15 | $2,675 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $1,315 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 11 | $909 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $327 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $325 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $227 |
| Axis Spine Technologies Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
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.
- INFUSE BONE GRAFT$9,100
- GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$2,957
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$2,752
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$2,000
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,827
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$1,581
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,549
- Catalyft$1,475
- RISE-L$1,099
- ELSA$892
- Mazor X Stealth Edition$796
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$304
- PRESTIGE$172
- UNiD$160
- XLIF$126
- COALITION AGX$118
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$117
- Axis Spine Technologies ALIF$106
- UNID_PASS$103
How this compares
$33,736 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 39 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Minnesota.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 77 | $1,153 |
| Pregabalin | 36 | $455 |
| Methocarbamol | 31 | $225 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $120 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 18 | $119 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $89 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Minneapolis
- Eiman ShafaMinneapolis$570K
- Jeffrey VargheseMinneapolis$5K
- Mark MichaelMinneapolis$4K
- Carlos CastroMinneapolis$4K
- John LonsteinMinneapolis$268
- Glenn ButtermannRoseville$259K
- Nicholas WillsEagan$241K
- Tenner GuillaumeSaint Paul$163K
- Benjamin MuellerFridley$89K
- Michael SmithEdina$43K
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.