Dale Mortenson, MD
Surgery · Great Falls, MTNPI 1801949722
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Intuitive Surgical accounts for 70.7% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,282 and has fallen 93.4% since, to $217 in 2025.
Across 40 payments — averaging $106.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Medtronic$312
- Covidien LP$245
- Davol Inc.$203
- Globus Medical$124
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$119
- plus $244 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,11050%
- Food & beverage$2,14650%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 15 | $3,008 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $312 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $245 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $203 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $124 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $119 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $44 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $29 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Focal Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,456
- AQUAMANTYS$103
How this compares
$4,256 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 96 surgery providers in Montana.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 133 | $729 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 12 | $709 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 14 | $412 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 15 | $88 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 15 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Great Falls
- Chad EnganGreat Falls$11K
- Rebecca PhuocGreat Falls$1K
- Glenn WinslowGreat Falls$1K
- John MeansKalispell$72K
- Matthew SilvaMissoula$59K
- Michael WilcoxBillings$45K
- James CromieKalispell$35K
- Jacob OpferBozeman$29K
- Bret MurrayBillings$27K
- Ryan GunliksonWhitefish$26K
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.