Zachary Helmen
Otolaryngology · St Louis Park, MNNPI 1669932216
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,190 of the $3,079 with a category attached, or 71.1%. Stryker accounts for 63.0% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,844 and has fallen 89.0% since, to $202 in 2025.
Across 47 payments — averaging $65.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$60
- GSK$41
- Organogenesis Inc.$18
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$602%
- Travel & lodging$2,19071%
- Food & beverage$83027%
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 | 19 | $1,939 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 24 | $1,022 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $60 |
| GSK | 2 | $41 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- CLARIFIX CRYOTHERAPY DEVICE$1,515
- Inspire$636
How this compares
$3,079 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 181 otolaryngology providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fluticasone Propionate | 37 | $1,124 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 16 | $422 |
| Ofloxacin | 16 | $332 |
| Mupirocin | 20 | $131 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology in St Louis Park
- Sandra SkovlundSt Louis Park$5K
- Daniel WatsonSt Louis Park$2K
- James KudererSt Louis Park$2K
- Samuel LevineMinneapolis$151K
- George GodingMinneapolis$143K
- Theodore TruittSaint Cloud$96K
- Matthew CarlsonRochester$80K
- Troy HemmeMaple Grove$28K
- Michael PaparellaMinneapolis$22K
- Oleg FroymovichMinneapolis$20K
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.