Who Paid My Doc
Kevin Kruse
Orthopaedic Surgery Dallas, TX Medical Doctor
NPI 1508094137 CMS profile 23041
8210 Walnut Hill Ln, Ste 130, Dallas, TX 75231
General payments
$173,997
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$632,804
Research they led as principal investigator
$17,644
Through program year 2025, Kevin Kruse of Dallas, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $173,997 across 312 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $17,644 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $632,804 across 1 holding.
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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 94th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
8 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $11,615 | 24 | |
| 2024 | General | $2,010 | 10 | |
| 2023 | General | $2,405 | 17 | |
| 2022 | General | $124 | 4 | |
| 2021 | General | $38,463 | 61 | |
| 2020 | General | $30,813 | 47 | |
| 2019 | General | $88,567 | 149 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $632,804 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Kevin Kruse
- Orthopaedic Surgery median
- Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Kevin Kruse were reported at $11,615. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.
Show as a table
| Year | Kevin Kruse | Orthopaedic Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $88,567 | $644 | $140–$2,844 | $163 |
| 2020 | $30,813 | $312 | $75–$1,860 | $114 |
| 2021 | $38,463 | $520 | $117–$2,495 | $132 |
| 2022 | $124 | $598 | $128–$2,731 | $149 |
| 2023 | $2,405 | $461 | $128–$2,264 | $160 |
| 2024 | $2,010 | $497 | $134–$2,475 | $164 |
| 2025 | $11,615 | $563 | $147–$2,717 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 10 drugsPart D claims
531
Drug cost
$3,946
Branded share of claims
32.2%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Odt Ondansetron | Brand | 141 | $1,282 | |
| Oxycodone Hcl | Generic | 104 | $642 | |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | Generic | 35 | $609 | |
| Tramadol Hcl | Generic | 103 | $315 | |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 30 | $312 | |
| Ibuprofen | Generic | 34 | $309 | |
| Pregabalin | Generic | 26 | $170 | |
| Prednisone | Generic | 25 | $132 | |
| Methylprednisolone | Generic | 22 | $119 | |
| Meloxicam | Generic | 11 | $55 |
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 1,233 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopaedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Records
312 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
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.