Sean Kipp, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Saint Croix Falls, WINPI 1871118430
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Stryker accounts for 61.1% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,285 and has fallen 65.6% since, to $442 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in WI, where the typical reported total is $2,427.
Across 39 payments — averaging $56.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Smith+Nephew$325
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$202
- Foundation Medical, LLC$160
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$56
- Organogenesis Inc.$43
- plus $67 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$93743%
- Food & beverage$1,25757%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 9 | $1,340 |
| Smith+Nephew | 14 | $325 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $202 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 5 | $160 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $18 |
| Nevro Corp. | 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
$2,194 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 105 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 42 | $1,163 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 13 | $931 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 30 | $250 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 13 | $224 |
| Methylprednisolone | 23 | $176 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $139 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 13 | $105 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $98 |
| Celecoxib | 19 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Saint Croix Falls
- Mitch HulbertSheboygan$96K
- James WhelanBeloit$51K
- Nikita GramaStevens Point$31K
- Keith AndersonHayward$31K
- Jay ChristensenAppleton$26K
- Jason BurkleMadison$26K
- Hui ZhangOak Creek$25K
- James TorhorstWaupaca$25K
- Todd DerksenAppleton$23K
- Spencer HammackPlatteville$20K
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.