Stephen Huddleston, MD
Surgery · Duluth, MNNPI 1104037621
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $50,000 of the $50,744 with a category attached, or 98.5%. CSL Behring accounts for 98.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $50,000 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $27 in 2025. Among 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.
Across 10 payments — averaging $5074.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CSL Behring$50K
- Edwards Lifesciences$314
- Atricure, Inc.$167
- Teleflex LLC$144
- Boston Scientific$51
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$41
- plus $27 from 1 others
Across 65 payments — averaging $6081.88 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.
- Transmedics, Inc.$345K
- CSL Behring$50K
What the payments were for
- Grants$50,00099%
- Food & beverage$7441%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring | 1 | $50,000 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $314 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $144 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $51 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
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
$50,744 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 498 surgery providers in Minnesota.
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.
Other surgery in Duluth
- Ryan LussendenDuluth$16K
- Ryan GroeschlDuluth$15K
- Jayson DockShakopee$266K
- Charles SvendsenMinneapolis$266K
- Michael MegalyMinneapolis$168K
- Andrew SurmakSaint Louis Park$167K
- William NorthrupWhite Bear Lake$160K
- Jolene SinghSt Cloud$150K
- Mark SneiderSaint Paul$120K
- Todd KelloggRochester$110K
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.