Timothy Beard, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (55.2%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Heron Therapeutics, Inc. accounts for 61.1% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $84,292 and has fallen 61.1% since, to $32,826 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in OR 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.
Across 290 payments — averaging $728.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$129K
- Vertex$43K
- Trevena, Inc.$29K
- Merck$7K
- Medtronic$3K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$68
- plus $268 from 13 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $8624.77 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.
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$179K
- Vertex$9K
- AbbVie$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$55,17026%
- Speaking & faculty fees$116,64155%
- Travel & lodging$35,22117%
- Food & beverage$4,2242%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 193 | $128,980 |
| Vertex | 46 | $42,987 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 17 | $28,619 |
| Merck | 10 | $7,304 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $3,030 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $68 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $45 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $30 |
| Amgen | 1 | $21 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $18 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $16 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 1 | $15 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals 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
$211,256 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 386 surgery providers in Oregon.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bend
- Edward BoyleBend$618K
- Andrew JonesBend$85K
- Jana VanamburgBend$81K
- Stephen ArcherBend$22K
- Robert MartindalePortland$795K
- Sean OrensteinPortland$480K
- Vahagn NikolianPortland$277K
- Ann RustHermiston$173K
- Sabrina DrexelPortland$170K
- Avishai MeyerPortland$159K
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.