Has Stephen Hansen, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,714 in general payments to Stephen Hansen, MD across 102 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 Stephen Hansen, 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 Stephen Hansen, 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.

Stephen Hansen, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Pocatello, IDNPI 1164491460

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (59.2%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by 4web, Inc. at 37.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,135 and has fallen 68.8% since, to $1,289 in 2025.

$14,714in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 102 payments — averaging $144.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

4web, Inc.$5K
Globus Medical$2K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$1K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
plus $3K from 18 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,37523%
Travel & lodging$8,71659%
Food & beverage$2,62318%

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
4web, Inc.	10	$5,468
Globus Medical(2 entities)	11	$1,744
Alphatec Spine, Inc	6	$1,560
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	8	$1,287
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	10	$1,052
Zimmer Biomet	11	$1,007
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	4	$605
Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp.	1	$568
Boston Scientific	11	$350
Johnson & Johnson	8	$212
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	4	$154
Baxter Healthcare	1	$97
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$94
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$93
Spinefrontier, Inc.	2	$81
Si-bone, Inc.	4	$72
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.	1	$59
Medtronic	1	$43
Active Medical, LLC	1	$40
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$33
Augmedics Inc.	1	$33
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$27
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	1	$19
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$15

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

Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Idahoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$209,788

Medicare patients

154

Services billed

2,731

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
Pregabalin	50	$3,588
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	82	$2,225
Gabapentin	52	$888
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	45	$439
Tramadol Hcl	54	$321
Meloxicam	12	$21

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Pocatello

Benjamin BlairPocatello$1K
Roland KentPost Falls$1.1M
Samuel JorgensonMeridian$381K
Daniel BlizzardPost Falls$269K
David GlassmanPost Falls$77K
William BradleyMeridian$70K
Gregory DietrichLewiston$42K
David VerstHailey$10K
Mark WeightIdaho Falls$8K
Lynn StrombergIdaho Falls$1K

See the full list for Idaho →

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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