Has Charles Svendsen, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $266,054 in general payments to Charles Svendsen, MD across 359 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Charles Svendsen, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Charles Svendsen, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Charles Svendsen, MD

Surgery · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1073590055

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $179,721 of the $266,054 with a category attached, or 67.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $120,223 and has fallen 58.2% since, to $50,195 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$266,054in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 359 payments — averaging $741.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$266K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$46

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$41,60016%
Travel & lodging$32,89512%
Food & beverage$11,7994%
Education$179,72168%
Gifts$390%

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
Intuitive Surgical	357	$266,007
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$46

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

$266,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 498 surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$17,639

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

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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.

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