Has Curtis Bergquist, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,815 in general payments to Curtis Bergquist, MD across 72 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 Curtis Bergquist, 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 Curtis Bergquist, 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.

Curtis Bergquist, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Bend, ORNPI 1093140014

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 26.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,948, 2.6 times the $1,498 reported in 2021.

$8,815in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $122.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$2K
Medtronic$2K
Abiomed$1K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
Abbott$1K
Artivion, Inc.$246
plus $318 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,97456%
Food & beverage$3,84144%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	11	$2,321
Medtronic	25	$2,048
Abiomed	11	$1,476
Atricure, Inc.	7	$1,362
Abbott	9	$1,044
Artivion, Inc.	3	$246
Boston Scientific	2	$137
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$117
Baxter Healthcare	2	$49
Pfizer	1	$14

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.

EVOQUE$1,921
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$991
CoreValve Evolut$788
Epic$734
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$500
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$420
Avalus$260
Cardiac non-SynerGraft$231
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$231
BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$231
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$204
WATCHMAN Access System$121
TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$117
AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$117
CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$114
PHOTOFIX DECELLULARIZED BOVINE PERICARDIUM$114

How this compares

$8,815 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 52 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Oregon.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$174,573

Medicare patients

163

Services billed

418

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 Bend

Jennifer DixonBend$27K
Terry ShihBend$15K
Matthew SlaterBend$11K
Angelo VlessisBend$757
Steven DemeesterPortland$566K
Howard SongPortland$64K
Castigliano BhamidipatiPortland$52K
Areo SaffarzadehPortland$51K
Jonathan DanielPortland$49K
Robert DubosePortland$45K

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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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