Robert Laprade, MD
Sports Medicine · Edina, MNNPI 1477658771
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.5%), royalties or licence payments and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 96.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among sports medicine clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 434 payments — averaging $2647.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$1.1M
- Responsive Arthroscopy Inc$15K
- Ossur Americas, Inc.$10K
- Arthrex$8K
- Linvatec Corporation$2K
- Foundation Medical, LLC$1K
- plus $300 from 5 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $10,717 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.
- Smith+Nephew$64K
Across 6 payments — averaging $59,748 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Responsive Arthroscopy Inc$358K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$360,63331%
- Consulting fees$179,88116%
- Speaking & faculty fees$488,74843%
- Travel & lodging$102,8769%
- Food & beverage$15,7391%
- Education$1,2000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 363 | $1,112,261 |
| Responsive Arthroscopy Inc | 13 | $14,965 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 17 | $9,649 |
| Arthrex | 30 | $8,225 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 3 | $2,413 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 3 | $1,264 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $82 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $49 |
| Stryker | 1 | $29 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Acufex$375,278
- SPATIAL FRAME$240,676
- NOVOSTITCH$206,753
- Healicoil$120,765
- ULTRABUTTON$108,822
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$97,355
- Biosure$86,965
- Firstpass$81,479
- Fast-Fix 360$76,489
- ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair$76,173
- FAST-FIX$74,661
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$63,379
- Meniscal Root Repair System$58,724
- Endobutton$49,129
- FIRSTPASS MINI$39,158
- Accu-pass$37,560
- TRUNAV$35,938
- NOVOSTITCH PRO$34,971
- NA$33,485
- Anthem$28,120
How this compares
$1,149,077 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 156 sports medicine 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 sports medicine in Edina
- Ryan FaderEdina$78K
- Frank NorbergEdina$12K
- Corey WulfEdina$11K
- Christie HeikesEdina$2K
- Kayvon RiggiEdina$1K
- Jack SkendzelWoodbury$103K
- Christopher LapradeEagan$64K
- Julie DoddsFairmont$61K
- Jeremiah JohnsonEagan$54K
- Saurabh RawallMinneapolis$53K
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.