Peter Cole
Orthopaedic Surgery · Saint Paul, MNNPI 1811966617
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $58,444 of the $90,325 with a category attached, or 64.7%. Exactech, Inc. accounts for 66.8% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $30,774, more than ten times the $1,865 reported in 2019.
Across 158 payments — averaging $571.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exactech, Inc.$60K
- Kls-martin L.p.$9K
- Stryker$7K
- Synthes GmbH$6K
- Advita Ortho, LLC$5K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- plus $2K from 11 others
Across 14 payments — averaging $11,742 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$147K
- Stryker$17K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$58,44465%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,75710%
- Travel & lodging$15,52317%
- Food & beverage$7,3188%
- Education$2830%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Exactech, Inc. | 41 | $60,353 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 23 | $8,607 |
| Stryker | 53 | $6,566 |
| Synthes GmbH | 8 | $5,660 |
| Advita Ortho, LLC | 5 | $5,251 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $1,822 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $449 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $373 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $362 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $178 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $170 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 4 | $167 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| The Orthopaedic Implant Company | 1 | $85 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $84 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $73 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $25 |
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.
- EQUINOXE$48,747
- PRO$2,185
- MATRIXRIB$2,047
- TRAUMA$1,648
- EQUINOXE PHX SYSTEM$1,427
- GAMMA$1,398
- INTEGRA$838
- T2$750
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$712
- AM$703
- VARIAX$587
- AXSOS$553
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$279
- PRIMATRIX$279
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$243
- HOFFMANN$243
- NA$180
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$178
- ADAPT$172
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$136
How this compares
$90,325 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 Saint Paul
- 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.