Has Pierce Vatterott received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $146,032 in general payments to Pierce Vatterott across 155 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 Pierce Vatterott 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 Pierce Vatterott 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.

Pierce Vatterott

Cardiovascular Disease · Saint Paul, MNNPI 1437118114

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $95,843 of the $146,032 with a category attached, or 65.6%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 44.9% of the total. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$146,032in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 155 payments — averaging $942.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$66K
Philips North America LLC$40K
Cook Incorporated$34K
Cook Medical LLC$3K
Boston Scientific$2K
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$505

$65,693in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $2986.06 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$42K
Medtronic$23K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$95,84366%
Speaking & faculty fees$40,05827%
Travel & lodging$7,2315%
Food & beverage$2,9012%

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)	77	$65,577
Philips North America LLC	31	$40,363
Cook Incorporated	18	$34,399
Cook Medical LLC	22	$3,197
Boston Scientific	5	$1,991
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$505

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.

Evolution$29,299
Micra$13,722
(9520) IGT Devices Undivided$10,978
Bridge$10,900
TightRail$9,566
Cook Medical Lead Management$5,100
CVX-300$4,813
TYRX$3,400
QC$2,550
INGEVITY$1,750
Cook Medical Lead Management - Lead Extraction$1,062
(9124) LM Undivided$655
SelectSecure$554
Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$500
Spectranetics Undiv$263
Arctic Front$158
Lasers$132
IGT D Therapy$132
CareLink$121
GENERAL TACHY$111

How this compares

$146,032 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.

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Other cardiovascular disease in Saint Paul

Thomas BiggsSaint Paul$244K
Spencer KuboSaint Paul$134K
Johannes BrechtkenSaint Paul$100K
Nishtha SodhiSaint Paul$50K
Jeffrey ChambersMinneapolis$3.2M
Srijoy MahapatraRochester$1.2M
Markus MeyerMinneapolis$786K
Robert SchwartzMinneapolis$502K
Robert VantasselMinneapolis$493K
Charanjit RihalRochester$478K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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