Grayson Pitcher, MD
Vascular Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1033573225
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,257 of the $9,581 with a category attached, or 65.3%. It is spread thinly across 9 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.2%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,595 and has fallen 52.0% since, to $1,245 in 2025.
Across 68 payments — averaging $140.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Bolton Medical Inc$2K
- Cook Medical LLC$2K
- Shape Memory Medical Inc.$901
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$559
- plus $634 from 3 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $11,875 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.
- Shape Memory Medical Inc.$95K
What the payments were for
- Grants$2,13922%
- Travel & lodging$99310%
- Food & beverage$6,25765%
- Education$1912%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $2,131 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 13 | $2,017 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 14 | $1,753 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 17 | $1,585 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 8 | $901 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $559 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $310 |
| Cook Incorporated | 2 | $291 |
| Centerline Biomedical Inc. | 1 | $34 |
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.
- Endurant$1,750
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$1,153
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$732
- Zenith Alpha$723
- IMPEDE EMBOLIZATION PLUG$651
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$461
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$461
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$406
- Zenith$285
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$285
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$170
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$154
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$144
- Relay Plus$144
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$142
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$142
- Relay Grafts$137
- VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$126
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$122
- Gelweave$105
How this compares
$9,581 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 84 vascular surgery providers in Minnesota.
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.
Other vascular surgery in Rochester
- Todd RasmussenRochester$561K
- Matthew MelinRochester$196K
- Fahad ShujaRochester$34K
- Mohammad KhasawnehRochester$30K
- Jonathan MorrisonRochester$16K
- Nolan Cirillo-PennRochester$14K
- Manju KalraRochester$7K
- Ali KhalifehRochester$5K
- Armin FarazdaghiRochester$4K
- Andrew HoelRochester$3K
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.