Paul Bjordahl, MD
Surgery · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1366647885
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (59.6%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. CSL Behring accounts for 62.5% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,708 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $107 in 2025.
Across 33 payments — averaging $74.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CSL Behring$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$202
- Intuitive Surgical$172
- Z-medica, LLC$104
- Conmed Corporation$83
- Covidien LP$75
- plus $282 from 13 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $14,380 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.
- CSL Behring$316K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$773%
- Travel & lodging$1,45960%
- Food & beverage$91337%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring | 6 | $1,531 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $202 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $172 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 2 | $104 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $83 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $75 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $22 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $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.
- TRUMATCH$127
How this compares
$2,450 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 87 surgery providers in South Dakota.
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.
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- Michael PersonSioux Falls$4K
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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.