Stuart Fromm
Orthopaedic Surgery · Rapid City, SDNPI 1881674547
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $13,318,341 of the $13,319,979 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 97.8% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in SD 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 80 payments — averaging $166,500 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$13M
- Stryker$187K
- Smith+Nephew$102K
- Johnson & Johnson$794
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$104
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$13,318,341100%
- Consulting fees$5850%
- Travel & lodging$7730%
- Food & beverage$2800%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 29 | $13,030,148 |
| Stryker | 32 | $187,103 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $101,831 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $794 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $104 |
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.
- RAPIDLOC PDS PANACRYL$10,068,061
- Omnispan Orthocord$10,068,061
- RAPIDLOC$2,961,502
- OMNISPAN$2,961,502
- KNOTILUS ANCHOR, 3.5MM$141,184
- Endobutton$101,831
- KNOTILUS$45,763
- SUMMIT$689
- SELF-CENTERING$689
How this compares
$13,319,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 92 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Dakota.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Rapid City
- Clark DucheneRapid City$107K
- Nathan JacobsonRapid City$38K
- Jeffrey MarrsRapid City$36K
- Christian GaffneyRapid City$26K
- Joshua KolzRapid City$7K
- Joseph HumpherysRapid City$6K
- Robert WoodruffRapid City$5K
- Lew PapendickRapid City$4K
- Emmett McEleneyRapid City$4K
- Steven GiuseffiRapid City$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.