Has Richard Kyle, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,907 in general payments to Richard Kyle, MD across 18 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 Richard Kyle, 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 Richard Kyle, 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.

Richard Kyle, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1720186588

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $24,673 of the $25,907 with a category attached, or 95.2%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 95.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $15,842 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $260 in 2024.

$25,907in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $1439.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Encore Medical, LP$25K
Exactech, Inc.$755
Stryker$197
Smith+Nephew$178
Spineology Inc.$88
Si-bone, Inc.$15

$38in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $3.80 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Spineology Inc.$38
Activortho, Inc.$0

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$24,67395%
Speaking & faculty fees$880%
Travel & lodging$5242%
Food & beverage$6212%

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
Encore Medical, LP	9	$24,673
Exactech, Inc.	4	$755
Stryker	2	$197
Smith+Nephew	1	$178
Spineology Inc.	1	$88
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$15

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.

DJO Surgical Motivation and S.U.R.E. System$24,673
DJO Surgical Foundation Knee$23,372
DJO Surgical EPIK Uni Knee$23,372
NOVATION HIP$733
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$178
SPATIAL FRAME$178
REAL INTELLIGENCE$178
NOVOSTITCH$178
Engage Partial Knee System$178
GAMMA$172

How this compares

$25,907 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$21,393

Medicare patients

Services billed

146

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
Diclofenac Sodium	24	$592
Tamsulosin Hcl	15	$195
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl	12	$194
Losartan Potassium	13	$159
Metoprolol Succinate	13	$158
Celecoxib	13	$107
Ibuprofen	12	$73
Meloxicam	17	$30
Cephalexin	11	$18

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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