Michael Joannides, MD
Surgery · Bemidji, MNNPI 1720475858
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 28 payments — averaging $200.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Conmed Corporation$165
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$116
- Davol Inc.$112
- Merck$87
- Johnson & Johnson$49
- plus $130 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$79114%
- Food & beverage$83215%
- Education$4,00071%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 14 | $4,963 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $165 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 2 | $116 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Merck | 1 | $87 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $49 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $32 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $23 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 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
$5,623 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 498 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 13 | $1,274 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 35 | $567 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 11 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bemidji
- Travis GrotzRochester$818K
- Sean ClearyRochester$802K
- Sandra EngwallBrooklyn Center$655K
- Judy BougheyRochester$642K
- Uroghupatei IyeghaMinneapolis$569K
- Stephen HuddlestonDuluth$442K
- Jayson DockShakopee$266K
- Charles SvendsenMinneapolis$266K
- Michael KendrickRochester$237K
- Raja KandaswamyMinneapolis$222K
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.