Has Paul Crowe, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,112 in general payments to Paul Crowe, MD across 137 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Paul Crowe, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Paul Crowe, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Paul Crowe, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1184635922

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 94.9% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,946 and has fallen 94.9% since, to $405 in 2025.

$11,112in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 137 payments — averaging $81.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$11K
Johnson & Johnson$155
Foundation Medical, LLC$148
Smith+Nephew$139
Arthrex$91
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$35

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$5,50049%
Travel & lodging$2,05318%
Food & beverage$3,55932%

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)	128	$10,543
Johnson & Johnson	2	$155
Foundation Medical, LLC	2	$148
Smith+Nephew	2	$139
Arthrex	1	$91
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$35

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

$11,112 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$82,240

Medicare patients

160

Services billed

3,463

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	26	$336
Tramadol Hcl	94	$285
Ibuprofen	17	$210
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	55	$183
Oxycodone Hcl	28	$167
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	26	$153
Prednisone	34	$108
Amoxicillin	85	$105
Hydroxyzine Pamoate	15	$89
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	11	$86
Clindamycin Hcl	15	$29

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.

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