Has Steven Laxson received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,570 in general payments to Steven Laxson across 101 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 Laxson 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 Laxson 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 Laxson

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Portland, ORNPI 1336236124

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,516 of the $10,570 with a category attached, or 71.1%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 54.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,541 and has fallen 52.5% since, to $1,683 in 2025.

$10,570in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 101 payments — averaging $104.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$6K
Smith+Nephew$1K
Paragon 28, Inc.$924
Johnson & Johnson$765
Zimmer Biomet$517
Urgo Medical North America, LLC$200
plus $1K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,05329%
Food & beverage$7,51671%

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
Stryker(2 entities)	43	$5,763
Smith+Nephew	15	$1,188
Paragon 28, Inc.	10	$924
Johnson & Johnson	13	$765
Zimmer Biomet	5	$517
Urgo Medical North America, LLC	2	$200
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$174
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$125
Acumed LLC	1	$123
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$115
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	1	$109
Avita Medical Americas, LLC	1	$108
Bone Support Inc.	1	$100
Steelhead Surgical Inc	1	$100
Exactech, Inc.	1	$92
Kerecis Limited	1	$85
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$83

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

$10,570 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 113 foot & ankle surgery providers in Oregon.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Oxycodone Hcl	104	$801
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	30	$251
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	11	$124

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Portland

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Scott BoyntonPortland$120K
Andrew ShinabargerPortland$85K
Kevin DriscollPortland$21K
John MassoudPortland$14K
Kenneth HegewaldPortland$11K
Lara AtwaterPortland$10K
Denny lePortland$9K
Andrew HuPortland$7K
Paul JonesPortland$5K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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