Darin Friess, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Portland, ORNPI 1215963368
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,225 of the $1,661 with a category attached, or 73.8%. Acumed LLC accounts for 77.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,254 and has fallen 75.9% since, to $302 in 2025.
Across 33 payments — averaging $50.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$1K
- Stryker$222
- Johnson & Johnson$140
- Steelhead Surgical Inc$21
Across 16 payments — averaging $1727.25 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$28K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,22574%
- Food & beverage$43626%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 6 | $1,279 |
| Stryker | 19 | $222 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $140 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Pelvic Plating System$175
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic trauma providers in Oregonto 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 34 | $358 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 12 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Portland
- Graham DekeyserPortland$60K
- Zachary WorkingPortland$24K
- Ian McAlisterBend$4K
- Aaron AskewBend$3K
- Tamara SimpsonHermiston$1K
- Brandon WilkinsonEugene$558
- David PressmanSalem$260
- Anna van der HorstEugene$170
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.