John Wiest, MD
Vascular Surgery · Bend, ORNPI 1073590998
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,127 of the $1,627 with a category attached, or 69.3%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Baxter Healthcare at 30.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $746 and has fallen 76.5% since, to $175 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in OR, where the typical reported total is $4,442.
Across 23 payments — averaging $70.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$500
- Medtronic$453
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$243
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$162
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$139
- Boston Scientific$47
- plus $83 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50031%
- Food & beverage$1,12769%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $500 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $453 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $243 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $162 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $139 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $47 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Artivion, 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
$1,627 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 56 vascular surgery providers in Oregon.
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 Bend
- Wayne NelsonBend$69K
- Paul LongBend$62K
- Jason JundtBend$15K
- James BallardBend$15K
- Brant UlleryWilsonville$816K
- Mark MoraschSpringfield$127K
- Cherrie AbrahamPortland$80K
- Jeffrey CrawfordCorvallis$46K
- Craig SeidmanSpringfield$20K
- John DusselWilsonville$20K
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.