Has Cole Cheney, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,820 in general payments to Cole Cheney, MD across 43 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 Cole Cheney, 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 Cole Cheney, 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.

Cole Cheney, MD

Pain Medicine · Mankato, MNNPI 1922539568

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 48.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,680 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $23 in 2025.

$3,820in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $88.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$2K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
Nevro Corp.$429
Abbott$215
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$87
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$39
plus $23 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,13356%
Food & beverage$1,68844%

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
Medtronic	24	$1,865
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	7	$1,163
Nevro Corp.	3	$429
Abbott	2	$215
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	4	$87
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$39
Stryker	1	$23

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

$3,820 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 88 pain medicine providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$97,966

Medicare patients

323

Services billed

878

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	17	$1,759
Gabapentin	65	$1,356
Pregabalin	25	$595
Oxycodone Hcl	33	$137
Nortriptyline Hcl	11	$132
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	12	$114
Tizanidine Hcl	11	$96
Diazepam	11	$31

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Mankato

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David SchultzEdina$99K
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Michael McEntireRochester$70K
Ronald BoedingMaple Grove$68K
Matthew ThorsonEdina$59K
Sherri HaasEdina$51K
Cody FosterCoon Rapids$36K
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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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