Qingwu Kong, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1760912372
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 230 payments — averaging $99.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$10K
- Zimmer Biomet$9K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$479
- Smith+Nephew$190
- Cerapedics Inc.$177
- plus $882 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$12,61855%
- Food & beverage$10,01044%
- Education$3522%
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 | 99 | $10,436 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 88 | $9,027 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $1,789 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $479 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $190 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $177 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 2 | $141 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $140 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $118 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 2 | $113 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Axogen | 1 | $60 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $57 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
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.
- MAKO$6,827
- Avenir$2,750
- Persona$1,299
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$1,103
- Oxford$779
- Taperloc$554
- TRIATHLON$490
- ROSA$476
- G7$455
- Comprehensive Anatomic$433
- INSIGNIA$277
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$177
- ATTUNE$142
- NA$141
- INSTRUMENTS-GENERAL SURGERY$140
- Persona Revision$125
- Mobi-C$124
- Anthem$118
- Cambria NanoMetalene$116
- XtraFix$114
How this compares
$22,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 86 | $788 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 45 | $592 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 59 | $492 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $224 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $209 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 53 | $175 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $157 |
| Ibuprofen | 19 | $128 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $90 |
| Meloxicam | 30 | $78 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Minneapolis
- David PollyMinneapolis$3.4M
- Ensor TransfeldtMinneapolis$2.3M
- Manuel PintoMinneapolis$1.7M
- Joseph PerraMinneapolis$1.6M
- Timothy GarveyMinneapolis$1.6M
- Amir MehbodMinneapolis$1.3M
- David TemplemanMinneapolis$361K
- Jonathan SembranoMinneapolis$352K
- Christopher MartinMinneapolis$276K
- Patrick YoonMinneapolis$203K
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.