Has Thomas Kaiser, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $39,899 in general payments to Thomas Kaiser, MD across 42 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 Thomas Kaiser, 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 Thomas Kaiser, 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.

Thomas Kaiser, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Faribault, MNNPI 1477971174

Payments from drug & device makers

$39,899in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $949.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$20K
Smith+Nephew$7K
DJO, LLC$4K
Gemini Medical LLC$4K
Peerless Surgical Inc.$3K
Stryker$571
plus $301 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Grants$24,37561%
Travel & lodging$4471%
Food & beverage$1,4864%
Education$13,59134%

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
Arthrex	1	$20,000
Smith+Nephew	10	$7,192
DJO, LLC	4	$4,375
Gemini Medical LLC	4	$4,190
Peerless Surgical Inc.	5	$3,271
Stryker	7	$571
Foundation Medical, LLC	5	$133
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	4	$129
Vericel Corporation	2	$39

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

$39,899 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$73,828

Medicare patients

151

Services billed

1,770

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	16	$77

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Faribault

Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
John SperlingRochester$13.5M
Robert TrousdaleRochester$12.2M
Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10.5M
Bryan Den HartogStillwater$9.1M
Joseph NesslerSartell$8.6M
David LewallenRochester$8.4M
Rafael SierraRochester$5M
Joaquin Sanchez-SoteloRochester$4.1M

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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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