Has Erin Bettendorf, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,944 in general payments to Erin Bettendorf, MD across 201 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 Erin Bettendorf, 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 Erin Bettendorf, 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.

Erin Bettendorf, MD

Pain Medicine · Coon Rapids, MNNPI 1659719987

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (35.0%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 73.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $8,922 and has fallen 90.8% since, to $825 in 2025.

$19,944in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 201 payments — averaging $99.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$15K
Abbott$4K
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$103
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$81
Curonix LLC$71
plus $257 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$6,80034%
Travel & lodging$6,98335%
Food & beverage$6,16131%

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	123	$14,588
Abbott	52	$3,597
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	7	$1,247
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$103
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$81
Curonix LLC	4	$71
Nevro Corp.	2	$67
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	2	$52
Boston Scientific	2	$39
Vertos Medical, Inc.	2	$36
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$30
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$19
Itamar Medical Inc	1	$15

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

$19,944 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 88 pain medicine providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$226,852

Medicare patients

604

Services billed

1,538

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
Cephalexin	182	$1,753
Mupirocin	145	$1,136
Clindamycin Hcl	96	$1,048
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	177	$889
Naloxone Hcl	13	$888
Oxycodone Hcl	169	$579
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	34	$201

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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