Steven Klepps, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Billings, MTNPI 1467488387
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $9,875 of the $15,625 with a category attached, or 63.2%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 81.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $12,265 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $333 in 2025.
Across 41 payments — averaging $381.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$13K
- Sioux Surgical Inc$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$869
- Stryker$652
- Smith+Nephew$100
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$68
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,87563%
- Travel & lodging$3,31421%
- Food & beverage$1,2368%
- Education$1,2008%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 25 | $12,736 |
| Sioux Surgical Inc | 1 | $1,200 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $869 |
| Stryker | 4 | $652 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $100 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $68 |
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.
- Comprehensive Reverse$9,875
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$1,763
- NA$618
- Comprehensive Primary Stem$293
- Quattro$284
- INHANCE$139
- Comp Primary Revision Stem$115
How this compares
$15,625 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 76 orthopaedic surgery providers in Montana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 186 | $1,189 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 114 | $559 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 11 | $53 |
| Amoxicillin | 29 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Billings
- Brian DrakeBillings$84K
- Matthew KopplinBillings$35K
- Julia QuirionBillings$12K
- Gregory GrenierBillings$10K
- Zachary ScheerBillings$6K
- Kyle LybrandBillings$4K
- James ElliottBillings$4K
- Heather HansenBillings$2K
- Alan DacreBillings$2K
- Gregory McDowellBillings$685
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.