Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

SAMUEL KLINKER

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Surgery

NPI
1023571148
CMS profile
11557309
Location
LA CROSSE, WI

General Payments · PY2023–2025

$2,757.01

  • Reported across 20 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$1,839.52

12 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Education $1,000.00 1
Food and Beverage $839.52 11

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $1,028.98 2
Medtronic, Inc. $689.44 9
Merit Medical Systems Inc $121.10 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2023 $294.57 2
PY2024 $622.92 6
PY2025 $1,839.52 12

Payment records · PY2025 (12)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2025 20232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $28.98 04/11/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1236639105 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $1,000.00 04/11/2025 Education Undisputed 06/30/2026 1236639107 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $107.50 01/14/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1219881798 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $3.68 01/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1219881800 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $32.00 02/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1219881804 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $6.57 02/05/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1224980675 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $173.86 03/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1219881810 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $48.91 03/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1219881802 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $160.34 03/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1219881806 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $34.40 03/24/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1219881808 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $122.18 07/22/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1219881812 CMS
Merit Medical Systems Inc $121.10 09/10/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1228356050 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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