Has Laurie Kuestner, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,253 in general payments to Laurie Kuestner, MD across 23 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Laurie Kuestner, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Laurie Kuestner, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Laurie Kuestner, MD

Vascular Surgery · Idaho Falls, IDNPI 1235111261

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,493 of the $2,253 with a category attached, or 66.3%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Silk Road Medical, Inc. at 44.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $843 and has fallen 62.0% since, to $320 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in ID, where the typical reported total is $2,623.

$2,253in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $97.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$440
Shockwave Medical, Inc$346
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$155
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$148
Globus Medical$57
plus $100 from 4 others

$16,847in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $802.23 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.

Cook Research Incorporated$17K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$76034%
Food & beverage$1,49366%

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
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	6	$1,009
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	3	$440
Shockwave Medical, Inc	2	$346
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	4	$155
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$148
Globus Medical	1	$57
Medtronic	2	$43
Itamar Medical Inc	1	$24
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$23
Cook Medical LLC	2	$10

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

$2,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 28 vascular surgery providers in Idaho.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$238,095

Medicare patients

1,933

Services billed

2,855

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	27	$16,528
XareltoRivaroxaban	24	$13,278
Atorvastatin Calcium	42	$362
Cilostazol	43	$289
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	71	$179

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular surgery in Idaho Falls

Rachael SnowIdaho Falls$4K
Warren AlbrechtIdaho Falls$3K
Elliot AdamsTwin Falls$99K
Michael TullisMeridian$45K
Kenneth MadsenBoise$11K
Louis ZhangBoise$7K
Matthew LowCoeur D Alene$6K
Alexis GrahamBoise$6K
Vikram PalkarBoise$6K
Christopher WardCoeur D Alene$5K

See the full list for Idaho →

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.

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