Orthopaedic Surgery in Minnesota
533 providers, $151,738,348 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $3,921.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Minnesota
Across 340 orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Minnesota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $33,631,800 in total — an average of $98,917 each, of which $95,911 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Daniel BerryRochester$21,525,034
- 2Mark PagnanoRochester$14,758,317
- 3Robert TrousdaleRochester$12,173,036
- 4John SperlingRochester$12,162,093
- 5Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10,521,204
- 6Bryan Den HartogStillwater$8,993,016
- 7Joseph NesslerSartell$8,632,989
- 8David LewallenRochester$7,961,886
- 9Rafael SierraRochester$4,885,142
- 10Mark DahlOak Park Heights$3,992,829
- 11Joaquin Sanchez-SoteloRochester$3,970,930
- 12Michael TauntonRochester$3,530,758
- 13David PollyMinneapolis$3,308,167
- 14Michael FreehillPlymouth$3,301,010
- 15Arlen HanssenRochester$3,156,824
- 16Matthew AbdelRochester$3,103,503
- 17Ensor TransfeldtMinneapolis$2,261,707
- 18Bradford CurrierRochester$2,027,959
- 19Manuel PintoMinneapolis$1,669,386
- 20Joseph PerraMinneapolis$1,597,701
- 21Timothy GarveyMinneapolis$1,588,459
- 22Amir MehbodMinneapolis$1,274,927
- 23Richard DavisWaconia$1,148,938
- 24Michael StuartRochester$1,138,562
- 25Kevin PerryRochester$955,180
- 26Aaron KrychRochester$940,371
- 27Kyle SwansonMankato$778,018
- 28Stephen SemsRochester$639,138
- 29Eric GreenSartell$533,489
- 30Annalise LarsonRochester$488,989
- 31Grigoriy ArutyunyanRochester$450,803
- 32Bassem El HassanRochester$384,120
- 33David TemplemanMinneapolis$361,481
- 34Christopher LarsonEdina$324,204
- 35Brandon YuanRochester$310,316
- 36Trevor McIverSartell$236,095
- 37Arjun SebastianRochester$203,627
- 38Patrick YoonMinneapolis$203,469
- 39Jonathan BarlowRochester$183,000
- 40Brett FreedmanRochester$178,867
- 41Owen OneillBurnsville$175,069
- 42Leroy McCartyEdina$155,404
- 43Paul CammackRobbinsdale$154,310
- 44Jack BertWoodbury$147,633
- 45Christopher MartinMinneapolis$130,972
- 46Daniel SarisRochester$130,620
- 47Ryan HoelEdina$126,230
- 48Timothy BrownRochester$124,275
- 49Elizabeth ArendtMinneapolis$110,629
- 50Allan HuntEdina$99,596
- 51Erik SeversonCrosby$95,929
- 52Krystin HiddenRochester$94,331
- 53Jennifer TangtiphaiboontanaRochester$92,159
- 54Christopher CampRochester$90,700
- 55Peter ColeSaint Paul$90,325
- 56James StokmanCrosby$90,039
- 57Matthew KirschRochester$88,319
- 58Scott MitchellBloomington$82,384
- 59Mark BolanderRochester$72,500
- 60Emily WagstromMinneapolis$70,915