Jennifer Dixon, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Bend, ORNPI 1659509446
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $19,000 of the $26,977 with a category attached, or 70.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 88.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $11,235 and has fallen 90.3% since, to $1,086 in 2025.
Across 94 payments — averaging $286.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$24K
- Medtronic$930
- Abiomed$548
- Artivion, Inc.$408
- Abbott$220
- Edwards Lifesciences$220
- plus $781 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,67214%
- Food & beverage$4,29616%
- Education$19,00070%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 48 | $23,870 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $930 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $548 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $408 |
| Abbott | 4 | $220 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $220 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $219 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $153 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $132 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $121 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $117 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $20 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $19 |
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$16,771
- DAVINCI XI$6,000
- Avalus$371
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$231
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$231
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$231
- TAGRISSO$132
- WATCHMAN Access System$121
- TEG6s HEMOSTASIS SYSTEM$117
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$117
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$114
- PHOTOFIX DECELLULARIZED BOVINE PERICARDIUM$114
How this compares
$26,977 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 52 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Oregon.
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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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Bend
- Terry ShihBend$15K
- Matthew SlaterBend$11K
- Curtis BergquistBend$9K
- Angelo VlessisBend$757
- Steven DemeesterPortland$566K
- Howard SongPortland$64K
- Castigliano BhamidipatiPortland$52K
- Areo SaffarzadehPortland$51K
- Jonathan DanielPortland$49K
- Robert DubosePortland$45K
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.