Marit Thorsgard, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Saint Paul, MNNPI 1841436383
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.3%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 65.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,859 and has fallen 63.6% since, to $1,041 in 2025.
Across 171 payments — averaging $50.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$6K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$779
- Medtronic$762
- Edwards Lifesciences$740
- Abbott$197
- Biotronik Inc.$130
- plus $332 from 5 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3736.22 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.
- Novartis$4K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,99947%
- Food & beverage$4,58353%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 97 | $5,654 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $779 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $762 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 28 | $740 |
| Abbott | 4 | $197 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $96 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $69 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$8,594 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 84 interventional cardiology providers in Minnesota.
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 | 91 | $106,028 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 42 | $39,133 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 16 | $16,250 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 227 | $3,884 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 144 | $2,632 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 134 | $2,629 |
| Losartan Potassium | 86 | $1,384 |
| Ezetimibe | 45 | $1,203 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 76 | $1,177 |
| Carvedilol | 79 | $1,142 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 60 | $663 |
| Dilt-XrDiltiazem Hcl | 14 | $519 |
| Lisinopril | 41 | $347 |
| Nitroglycerin | 40 | $327 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 29 | $257 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Saint Paul
- Brett OestreichSaint Paul$26K
- Marat YanavitskiSaint Paul$21K
- Jennifer RiggsSaint Paul$17K
- Bilal MuradSaint Paul$17K
- Kenneth BaranSaint Paul$16K
- Abdalla HassanSaint Paul$9K
- James KolbeckSaint Paul$5K
- Thom DahleSaint Cloud$1.1M
- Stephen KiddSaint Cloud$607K
- Brian StegmanSt Cloud$587K
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.