James Bergthold
Internal Medicine · Portland, ORNPI 1215150024
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,585 of the $6,752 with a category attached, or 82.7%. Among internal medicine clinicians in OR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 83 payments — averaging $81.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eisai Inc.$4K
- Eli Lilly$3K
Across 121 payments — averaging $38,846 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.
- Eli Lilly$2.5M
- Modernatx, Inc.$1M
- Pfizer$875K
- Merck$299K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,58583%
- Food & beverage$1,13117%
- Education$361%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eisai Inc. | 31 | $3,772 |
| Eli Lilly | 52 | $2,980 |
How this compares
$6,752 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,363 internal medicine providers in Oregon.
Other internal medicine in Portland
- Pranav ChandrashekarPortland$81K
- Jessica CastlePortland$66K
- Stephen SpurgeonPortland$42K
- Jane BabiarzPortland$30K
- Andrew HarbisonPortland$29K
- Bertram BerneyPortland$19K
- George DemetrionPortland$13K
- Joshua GenstlerPortland$9K
- Y Pritham RajPortland$9K
- Todd WisePortland$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.