Open Payments · Minnesota

What drug & device companies paid Minnesota doctors

Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $1.16B in payments to 23,336 Minnesota physicians and teaching hospitals. Explore totals by congressional district and county, company, and recipient. ‹ Back to the national map

Analysis by , Chief Technology Officer at Civly · built from the complete CMS Open Payments release, program years 2018–2024.

$1.16B
reported 2018–2024
23,336
physicians paid
$49,787
avg / physician
1,898
companies paying
$22M
biggest recipient

Shaded by total reported payments. Hover an area for detail; click to drill in. ZIP→area mapping covers ~98% of payments (PO-box/unique ZIPs excluded). Source: CMS Open Payments, loaded by Civly.

Who pays Minnesota doctors, and who gets paid

Reported payments for 2018–2024 from CMS Open Payments. A reported payment alone does not indicate wrongdoing.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2024
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$70M
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation$41M
DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.$41M
PFIZER INC.$40M
Medtronic, Inc.$37M
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC.$35M
Genentech, Inc.$34M
Stryker Corporation$34M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$33M
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC$33M

Biggest recipients

Minnesota physicians by total received, 2018–2024
Berry Daniel$22M
Pagnano Mark$14M
Sperling John$12M
Trousdale Robert$12M
O'Driscoll Shawn$11M
Den Hartog Bryan$9M
Ryan Edwin$9M
Lewallen David$8M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2024
Orthopaedic Surgery$150M
Ophthalmology$25M
Cardiovascular Disease$15M
General Practice$10M
Diagnostic Radiology$8M
Neurology$6M
Interventional Cardiology$6M
Foot and Ankle Surgery$6M

By the numbers, 2018–2024

23,336

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$1.16B

reported across 425,177 individual payments.

How Minnesota compares nationally

Minnesota ranks 19th of 51 for total reported payments, with $1.16B across 425,177 payments from 2018 to 2024. That is 1.5% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $49,787 per recipient across 23,336 physicians and teaching hospitals, about 20% above the $41,481 national average (9th of 51 per physician). The largest payer was AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP at $70M. The highest-paid specialty was Orthopaedic Surgery. The largest individual recipient, Berry Daniel, received $22M across 282 payments.

#19
of 51 — total payments
#9
of 51 — per physician
1.5%
of all U.S. payments

Compare with nearby states

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