Loren Budge, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Billings, MTNPI 1942414594
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,261 of the $10,345 with a category attached, or 60.5%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 41.1% of the total.
Across 170 payments — averaging $60.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Abbott$3K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$116
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$75
- Novartis$53
- plus $72 from 4 others
Across 85 payments — averaging $1648.81 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.
- Boston Scientific$140K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,26161%
- Food & beverage$4,01439%
- Education$701%
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) | 34 | $4,254 |
| Boston Scientific | 114 | $2,935 |
| Abbott | 11 | $2,840 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 4 | $116 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Novartis | 2 | $53 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $15 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $14 |
| Preventice Services, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- AVEIR$2,590
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$1,420
- Micra$1,374
- WATCHMAN Access System$295
- WATCHMAN FLX$240
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$166
- Watchman$125
How this compares
Too few clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Montanato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 | 188 | $178,520 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 28 | $32,136 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 58 | $3,124 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 33 | $1,084 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 107 | $855 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 32 | $524 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 17 | $431 |
| Mupirocin | 41 | $299 |
| Carvedilol | 53 | $290 |
| Losartan Potassium | 44 | $282 |
| Spironolactone | 25 | $177 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 21 | $140 |
| Lisinopril | 20 | $123 |
| Omeprazole | 25 | $108 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 16 | $92 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Billings
- Joseph MuhlesteinBillings$43K
- William DresenBillings$8K
- Anastasios SaliarisBillings$8K
- Luis AlvarezBillings$3K
- Alan ThometzBillings$282
- Melissa RobinsonMissoula$248K
- Nicholas MantiniMissoula$39K
- Annie DongMissoula$29K
- Robert MurdockKalispell$12K
- Mark KovachGreat Falls$10K
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.