Robert Woodruff, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Rapid City, SDNPI 1669513552
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,620 of the $5,380 with a category attached, or 85.9%. Stryker accounts for 73.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,407 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $148 in 2024.
Across 27 payments — averaging $199.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- Globus Medical$853
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$467
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$73
- Nevro Corp.$28
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$14
- plus $12 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,62086%
- Food & beverage$76014%
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 | 19 | $3,933 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $853 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $467 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $28 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $12 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$3,300
- CREO$799
- SlMMETRY$467
- MAKO$148
How this compares
$5,380 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 92 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Dakota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 104 | $246 |
| Methylprednisolone | 28 | $186 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $180 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 16 | $127 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Rapid City
- Stuart FrommRapid City$13.3M
- Clark DucheneRapid City$107K
- Nathan JacobsonRapid City$38K
- Jeffrey MarrsRapid City$36K
- Christian GaffneyRapid City$26K
- Joshua KolzRapid City$7K
- Joseph HumpherysRapid City$6K
- Lew PapendickRapid City$4K
- Emmett McEleneyRapid City$4K
- Steven GiuseffiRapid City$3K
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.