Scott Torness
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Watertown, SDNPI 1679599633
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (43.6%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Paragon 28, Inc. at 33.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,497 and has fallen 83.7% since, to $243 in 2025.
Across 89 payments — averaging $61.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paragon 28, Inc.$2K
- Conetic Solutions, Inc.$1K
- Gemini Medical LLC$1K
- Smith+Nephew$463
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$275
- Trilliant Surgical LLC.$97
- plus $363 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$84115%
- Food & beverage$2,11839%
- Education$2,37944%
- Other$1152%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 13 | $1,827 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $1,221 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 2 | $1,206 |
| Smith+Nephew | 41 | $463 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 11 | $275 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $97 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $70 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $60 |
| Stryker | 3 | $55 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $25 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $15 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| TEI Medical Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Hammertube Sterile Implant Kits$695
- Portfolio$380
- Phantom Metatarsal Shortening$144
- Grappler$139
- BABY GORILLA$123
- ACell$115
How this compares
$5,453 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 23 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 38 | $408 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 29 | $343 |
| Silver Sulfadiazine | 30 | $202 |
| Cefadroxil | 16 | $142 |
| Levofloxacin | 14 | $111 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $72 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 14 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Watertown
- Eric WoolleyWatertown$4K
- Garret WobstAberdeen$79K
- Ruth MoenSioux Falls$14K
- James JohnstonAberdeen$10K
- Tyler HarrellBrookings$9K
- Kayla YazhariYankton$6K
- Gabriel RodriguezSioux Falls$5K
- Ryan PrusaBrookings$4K
- Jonathan YazhariYankton$4K
- Franklin AlvineSioux Falls$4K
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.