Has Steven Frost, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,172 in general payments to Steven Frost, MD across 55 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 Steven Frost, 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 Steven Frost, 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.

Steven Frost, MD

Anesthesiology · Rapid City, SDNPI 1871572396

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Medtronic accounts for 83.5% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,611, more than ten times the $12 reported in 2019. Among anesthesiology clinicians in SD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$3,172in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $57.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$3K
Boston Scientific$168
AbbVie$151
Abbott$76
Vertex$51
Averitas Pharma Inc.$33
plus $44 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,53849%
Food & beverage$1,63351%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	35	$2,649
Boston Scientific	3	$168
AbbVie	7	$151
Abbott	3	$76
Vertex	3	$51
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$33
Urogen Pharma, Inc.	1	$31
GRT US Holding, 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.

SYNCHROMEDII$1,632
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$127

How this compares

$3,172 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 72 anesthesiology providers in South Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$102,072

Medicare patients

388

Services billed

1,111

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
Oxycodone Hcl	65	$1,179
Gabapentin	45	$726
Morphine Sulfate	13	$686
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	20	$567
Hydromorphone Hcl	28	$481
Methylprednisolone	46	$334
Baclofen	12	$278
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	18	$272
Meloxicam	37	$244
Trazodone Hcl	22	$229
Pregabalin	14	$215
Tizanidine Hcl	17	$191
Tramadol Hcl	32	$174
Methocarbamol	15	$140
Topiramate	15	$89

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other anesthesiology in Rapid City

Joseph CardaRapid City$4K
Michael HuotRapid City$2K
Michael NesbitRapid City$456
John ButzRapid City$259
Michael NeilsonRapid City$200
Mark TravnicekRapid City$140
Brendan FeehanRapid City$81
Richard AllenRapid City$69
Nathaniel SmithRapid City$58
Lori BorellaRapid City$35

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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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