Has Samuel Harms, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,117 in general payments to Samuel Harms, MD across 35 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 Samuel Harms, 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 Samuel Harms, 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.

Samuel Harms, MD

Sports Medicine · Duluth, MNNPI 1447397799

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.8%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gemini Medical LLC at 38.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,958 and has fallen 87.1% since, to $252 in 2025.

$3,117in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $89.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Gemini Medical LLC$1K
Smith+Nephew$1K
Stryker$245
Foundation Medical, LLC$192
Catalyst Orthoscience$190
Zimmer Biomet$47
plus $83 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$36412%
Food & beverage$1,55350%
Education$1,20038%

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
Gemini Medical LLC	1	$1,200
Smith+Nephew	11	$1,161
Stryker	4	$245
Foundation Medical, LLC	8	$192
Catalyst Orthoscience	4	$190
Zimmer Biomet	2	$47
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	3	$40
BD	1	$26
Vericel Corporation	1	$18

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.

How this compares

$3,117 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 156 sports medicine providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$98,846

Medicare patients

182

Services billed

1,045

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
Oxycodone Hcl	32	$160
Prednisone	14	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Duluth

Douglas HoffmanDuluth$25K
Rachel YoungDuluth$1K
Robert LapradeEdina$1.1M
Jack SkendzelWoodbury$103K
Ryan FaderEdina$78K
Christopher LapradeEagan$64K
Julie DoddsFairmont$61K
Jeremiah JohnsonEagan$54K
Saurabh RawallMinneapolis$53K
Taylor RidleyFridley$46K

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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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