Barry Bjorgaard, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Grand Forks, NDNPI 1144250226
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,128 of the $4,189 with a category attached, or 74.7%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 46.7% of the total.
Across 32 payments — averaging $130.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$112
- Hemosonics LLC$98
- Abiomed$69
- Artivion, Inc.$52
- plus $147 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,12875%
- Food & beverage$1,06025%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 12 | $1,957 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,753 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $112 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 2 | $98 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $69 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Sioux Surgical Inc | 3 | $50 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $32 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
Too few thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Dakotato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Grand Forks
- James WrightGrand Forks$901
- Judah AskewFargo$7K
- Mohanad ElshiekhBismarck$6K
- Boyd MartsFargo$5K
- Charles CanverFargo$3K
- Gurjyot BajwaFargo$2K
- Saeed AllyFargo$1K
- Roxanne NewmanFargo$521
- Cyril TabeMinot$419
- Alexander SteinFargo$178
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.