Has Paul Friedman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $83,138 in general payments to Paul Friedman, MD across 98 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 Paul Friedman, 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 Paul Friedman, 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.

Paul Friedman, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Rochester, MNNPI 1609855881

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $53,963 of the $83,138 with a category attached, or 64.9%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 45.9% of the total. Among clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$83,138in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 98 payments — averaging $848.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$38K
Boston Scientific$28K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$4K
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$4K
Abbott$3K
plus $654 from 3 others

$304,249in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $5156.76 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.

Abbott$217K
GE HealthCare$60K
Medtronic$28K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$53,96365%
Speaking & faculty fees$18,76623%
Travel & lodging$6,0717%
Food & beverage$3,9095%
Other$4291%

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)	55	$38,196
Boston Scientific	22	$28,326
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$4,750
Biosense Webster, Inc.	4	$4,387
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$4,200
Abbott	12	$2,626
Eko Health, Inc.	1	$429
Anumana, Inc.	1	$158
Biosig Technologies, Inc.	1	$67

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

$83,138 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 72 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$56,363

Medicare patients

204

Services billed

374

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	12	$15,099

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Rochester

Samuel AsirvathamRochester$1M
Suraj KapaRochester$92K
David HayesRochester$86K
Waddah MalasRochester$36K
Siva MulpuruRochester$25K
Fatima Ali-AhmedRochester$23K
Nicholas TanRochester$21K
Sindhuja PalleRochester$17K
Martin van ZylRochester$16K
Harsh PatelRochester$14K

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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.

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