Medical Doctor Program year 2024 Reported 2021–2024 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

David Beard

Hand Surgery Fargo, ND Medical Doctor

NPI 1053376079 CMS profile 876908

1720 University Dr S, Fargo, ND 58103

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General payments

$6,607

15 records reported · program years 2021–2024

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2024

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2024, David Beard of Fargo, ND is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,607 across 15 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 71st percentile of Hand Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

4 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2024 General $16 1
2023 General $5,225 11
2022 General $50 1
2021 General $1,315 2

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • David Beard
  • Hand Surgery median
  • Middle half of Hand Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to David Beard were reported at $0. Among 1,842 Hand Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $270 and the middle half received between $102 and $1,118.

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Year David Beard Hand Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $383 $106–$1,905 $163
2020 $0 $172 $51–$1,268 $114
2021 $1,315 $263 $71–$1,591 $132
2022 $50 $336 $87–$1,938 $149
2023 $5,225 $233 $81–$1,114 $160
2024 $16 $258 $88–$1,203 $164
2025 $0 $270 $102–$1,118 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2024
  1. Synthes USA Products LLC $5,155 9 payments
  2. Midsouth Orthopedics $1,200 1 payment
  3. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $181 3 payments
  4. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $53 1 payment
  5. Stryker Corporation $17 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2024
  1. Consulting Fee $3,720 1 payment
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,344 5 payments
  3. Education $1,200 1 payment
  4. Food and Beverage $343 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2024
  1. VA-LCP $219 3 payments
  2. VARIAX $17 1 payment
  3. Fibulink $16 1 payment

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 2 drugs

Part D claims

48

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$54

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Cephalexin Generic 21 $28
Tramadol Hcl Generic 27 $27

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 38 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$20,174

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

37

Average age 70

Services billed

104

21 women, 16 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 68%
Arthritis 59%
Depression 30%
Osteoporosis 30%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

15 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2024

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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