Scott Kuzma, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · la Crosse, WINPI 1275599664
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 72 payments — averaging $298.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$11K
- Arthrex$7K
- True North Surgical Inc$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$295
- Vericel Corporation$292
- plus $863 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$7073%
- Travel & lodging$4012%
- Food & beverage$3,28015%
- Education$17,11280%
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 | 11 | $10,659 |
| Arthrex | 36 | $7,076 |
| True North Surgical Inc | 2 | $1,292 |
| Stryker | 10 | $1,024 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $295 |
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $292 |
| Great Lakes Orthopedics | 2 | $249 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 3 | $219 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $205 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $190 |
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.
- T2 ALPHA$328
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$295
- GAMMA$167
- SPATIAL FRAME$143
- Q-FIX$143
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$143
- Healicoil$143
- CINCHLOCK SS$121
- PANGEA$108
- MACI$107
- NOVOSTITCH$106
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$102
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$102
How this compares
$21,501 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 498 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wisconsin.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $93 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $72 |
| Amoxicillin | 56 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in la Crosse
- Mason Uvodichla Crosse$38K
- Robert ChurchillGrafton$8.3M
- Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
- Jeffrey McLaughlinOshkosh$2M
- Clifford TribusMadison$1.4M
- Thomas ZdeblickMadison$1.1M
- Rick PapandreaPewaukee$747K
- Christopher BibboStevens Point$717K
- Justin MitchellOnalaska$666K
- Robert LimoniAppleton$526K
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.