Joedd Biggs, MD
Vascular Surgery · Saint Joseph, MONPI 1760897367
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.8%), food and beverage and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 69.4% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $12,649 and has fallen 75.7% since, to $3,069 in 2025.
Across 189 payments — averaging $152.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$20K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Endologix LLC$1K
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$444
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$444
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$5,21718%
- Travel & lodging$14,59751%
- Food & beverage$8,59130%
- Education$3441%
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) | 81 | $19,943 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 23 | $2,356 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 19 | $2,094 |
| Endologix LLC | 11 | $1,351 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 14 | $444 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 7 | $444 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $389 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $299 |
| Stryker | 3 | $258 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $228 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $222 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $217 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $190 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $157 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $49 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $18 |
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.
- IN.PACT Admiral$10,933
- Endurant$1,875
- Indigo System$1,442
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$933
- Abre$903
- HawkOne$389
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$384
- ENDOCROSS Device$278
- Torus Stent Graft System$278
- Navicross$273
- Azur CX Detachable$273
- Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$262
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$251
- ENDURANT IIS$239
- METACROSS OTW$236
- Penumbra System$230
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$175
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$162
- Sublime 014 Rx PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter$157
- Sublime Microcatheter, 018, 200cm, Straight$157
How this compares
$28,749 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 92 vascular surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 30 | $21,156 |
| Varenicline Tartrate | 16 | $3,987 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 51 | $520 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 49 | $429 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $248 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $18 | $21,15630 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 92 vascular surgery providers in Missouri.
Other vascular surgery in Saint Joseph
- Sepehre NaficySaint Joseph$12K
- Matthew LukensSaint Joseph$8K
- Jeffrey JimSaint Louis$1.2M
- Karl StarkNorth Kansas City$223K
- Brian PetersonSaint Louis$216K
- Luis SanchezSaint Louis$178K
- Catherine WittgenSaint Louis$139K
- John OhmanSaint Louis$113K
- Jonathan BathColumbia$76K
- Scott KujathNorth Kansas City$72K
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.