Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Brian Ipsen

Orthopaedic Surgery Galena, KS Medical Doctor

NPI 1851371769 CMS profile 174277

444 Four States Dr, Ste 1, Galena, KS 66379

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General payments

$65,679

231 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$3,608,356

21 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Through program year 2025, Brian Ipsen of Galena, KS is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $65,679 across 231 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $3,608,356 across 21 holdings.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 90th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

14 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $10,140 43
2024 General $4,942 44
2023 General $32,175 50
2022 General $11,389 35
2021 General $5,579 36
2020 General $457 9
2019 General $997 14
2025 Ownership $506,312 3
2024 Ownership $485,922 3
2023 Ownership $661,249 3
2022 Ownership $519,172 3
2021 Ownership $563,941 3
2020 Ownership $554,109 4
2019 Ownership $317,651 2

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Brian Ipsen
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Brian Ipsen were reported at $10,140. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Brian Ipsen Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $997 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $457 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $5,579 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $11,389 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $32,175 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $4,942 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $10,140 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Augmedics Inc. $22,665 35 payments
  2. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $13,271 18 payments
  3. Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation $12,928 20 payments
  4. Medtronic, Inc. $3,576 28 payments
  5. CurvaFix, Inc. $3,210 2 payments
  6. Globus Medical, Inc. $2,974 51 payments
  7. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $1,961 9 payments
  8. Titan Surgical Group, LLC $745 7 payments
  9. Stryker Corporation $686 9 payments
  10. Providence Medical Technology, Inc. $456 5 payments
  11. Other $3,206 47 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $37,125 18 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $11,948 36 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $8,632 171 payments
  4. Honoraria $4,500 2 payments
  5. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $3,375 3 payments
  6. Education $99 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Xvision $113,327 175 payments
  2. CurvaFix IM Implant $3,210 2 payments
  3. Velys $1,961 9 payments
  4. CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM $1,860 4 payments
  5. Reef TO $1,000 1 payment
  6. MAZOR X SYSTEM $956 7 payments
  7. Regatta Spine Hardware Systems $828 10 payments
  8. Regatta Spine Hardware Systems $817 1 payment
  9. EXCELSIUS GPS $769 10 payments
  10. SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM $322 4 payments
  11. Other $6,060 121 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 12 drugs

Part D claims

406

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$4,299

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

51%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 167 $1,636
Naloxone Hcl Generic 21 $1,278
Celecoxib Generic 28 $337
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 36 $239
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 29 $219
Methylprednisolone Generic 29 $196
Baclofen Generic 24 $128
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 17 $95
Gabapentin Generic 18 $82
Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim Brand 11 $42

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 86 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$388,980

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

352

Average age 74

Services billed

1,301

185 women, 167 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 37%
Ischemic heart disease 35%
Depression 31%
Chronic kidney disease 25%
COPD 25%
Atrial fibrillation 21%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

1 product · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Exparel
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $58
$58 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

231 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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