Industry payments to physicians · Minnesota · 2024

Minnesota

In Minnesota, drug and device makers reported $49M in general payments to 10,403 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $4,673 each — plus $160M tied to research and $13M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.

$49M

general payments

10,403

covered recipients paid

$4,673

mean per physician

Top specialties in Minnesota

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $18M $45,726/phys

Ophthalmology $7M $43,227/phys

Cardiovascular Disease $2M $8,409/phys

Gastroenterology $1M $8,432/phys

Interventional Cardiology $1M $15,575/phys

Surgery $924,812 $3,557/phys

Neurology $917,707 $5,367/phys

Medical Oncology $870,896 $9,265/phys

Diagnostic Radiology $839,280 $3,959/phys

Neurological Surgery $796,272 $9,259/phys

Neuroradiology $729,958 $104,280/phys

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $641,107 $7,455/phys

Highest-paid physicians in Minnesota

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Mark Lobanoff Ophthalmology · St Louis Park · top payer: Alcon Research LLC $5M

Daniel Berry Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $2M

Mark Pagnano Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $2M

Robert Trousdale Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $2M

Joseph Nessler Orthopaedic Surgery · Sartell · top payer: Stryker Corporation $2M

Edwin Ryan Ophthalmology · Minneapolis · top payer: Alcon Vision LLC $1M

Shawn O'Driscoll Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester · top payer: ACUMED LLC $1M

Joaquin Sanchez-Sotelo Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester · top payer: Stryker Corporation $873,755

John Sperling Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $851,687

David Polly Orthopaedic Surgery · Minneapolis · top payer: SI-BONE, Inc. $736,120

Richard Lindstrom Ophthalmology · Bloomington · top payer: Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $720,888

Michael Freehill Orthopaedic Surgery · Plymouth · top payer: Stryker Corporation $716,866

Matthew Abdel Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester · top payer: Stryker Corporation $606,380

Jeffrey Chambers Cardiovascular Disease · Minneapolis · top payer: Teleflex LLC $550,892

Michael Finn Neurological Surgery · Edina · top payer: Stryker Corporation $541,196

Charanjit Rihal Cardiovascular Disease · Rochester · top payer: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $473,082

Alexander Copelan Neuroradiology · Eden Prairie · top payer: MicroVention, Inc. $464,235

Mark Dahl Orthopaedic Surgery · Oak Park Heights · top payer: Stryker Corporation $441,525

Nicole Chase Allergy & Immunology · Saint Paul · top payer: Genzyme Corporation $439,639

Vinayak Bapat Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Minneapolis · top payer: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $386,420

Sanjeev Kakar Surgery of the Hand · Rochester · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $301,706

Bruce Blazar Pediatric Hematology-Oncology · Minneapolis · top payer: BlueRock Therapeutics LP $297,853

Jeffery Allen Neurology · Minneapolis · top payer: ARGENX US, INC. $295,393

Annalise Larson Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester · top payer: Highridge Medical LLC $278,257

Thom Dahle Interventional Cardiology · Saint Cloud · top payer: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $271,422

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Minnesota — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.