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Industry payments to physicians · North Dakota · 2024

North Dakota

In North Dakota, drug and device makers reported $2M in general payments to 2,178 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $835 each — plus $7M tied to research and $0 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.
$2M
general payments
2,178
covered recipients paid
$835
mean per physician

Top specialties in North Dakota

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

Family Medicine $191,677
Interventional Cardiology $163,142
Nurse Practitioner $142,683
Orthopaedic Surgery $124,649
Dermatology $86,792
Surgery $81,683
Family $79,439
Neurological Surgery $71,739
Optometrist $69,700
Cardiovascular Disease $62,471
Dentist $61,190
Ophthalmology $53,971

Highest-paid physicians in North Dakota

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

Nayan Desai Interventional Cardiology · Bismarck · top payer: Pfizer Inc. $139,559
Imran Aslam Dermatology · Bismarck · top payer: Galderma Laboratories, L.P. $78,258
Todd Sekundiak Orthopaedic Surgery · Fargo · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $72,313
Emily Greenstein Nurse Practitioner · Fargo · top payer: Solventum Corporation $70,852
Hani Malone Neurological Surgery · Fargo · top payer: Orthofix Medical, Inc. $65,002
Michael Greenwood Ophthalmology · West Fargo · top payer: Glaukos Corporation $50,678
Kirsten Andrews Dentist · Devils Lake · top payer: Dentsply Sirona Inc $44,291
Brooke Messer Optometrist · West Fargo · top payer: Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $39,361
Richard Vetter Family Medicine · West Fargo · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $37,642
Gregory Greek Family Medicine · Grand Forks · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $35,300
Thomas Thorson Family Medicine · Mandan · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $34,804
Katherine Neubauer Family Medicine · West Fargo · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $34,319
Beng Loong Isaac Tea Cardiovascular Disease · Minot · top payer: Philips North America LLC $32,992
Chad Pedersen Medical Oncology · Watford City · top payer: EMD Serono, Inc. $32,373
Heath Gould Sports Medicine · Grand Forks · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $28,106
Sarah Kendroud Neurology · Fargo · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $26,218
Jeffrey Skogen Nephrology · Fargo · top payer: Amgen Inc. $25,195
Jackson Staggers Surgery · Fargo · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $20,183
Hai Xu Interventional Cardiology · Bismarck · top payer: Philips North America LLC $17,998
Daaron Mcfield Surgery · Fargo · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $16,897
Spencer Berry Family Medicine · Fargo · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $16,599
Erik Slette Orthopaedic Surgery · Fargo · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $14,175
Cody Pratt Surgery · Grand Forks · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $12,470
Timothy Pansegrau Cardiovascular Disease · Bismarck · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $11,769
Derek Mclister Podiatrist · Fargo · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $10,416

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 North Dakota — 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.