RxDoctor Payments Data

Shawn O'Driscoll

Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1952388324

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $10,453,865 of the $10,521,204 with a category attached, or 99.4%. Acumed LLC accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$10,521,204in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 109 payments — averaging $96,525 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Acumed LLC$10.3M
  • Stryker$221K
  • SIGN Fracture Care International$600
  • Vericel Corporation$17
$10,350in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $10,350 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Acumed LLC$10K

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$10,453,86599%
  • Consulting fees$42,4090%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,3500%
  • Travel & lodging$22,6630%
  • Food & beverage$9000%
  • Entertainment$170%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Acumed LLC97$10,300,030
Stryker(2 entities)10$220,557
SIGN Fracture Care International1$600
Vericel Corporation1$17

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

$10,521,204 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.

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