Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Norman Friedman

Neurology Kalispell, MT Medical Doctor

NPI 1093751398 CMS profile 231253

200 Commons Way Ste B, Kalispell, MT 59901

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General payments

$34,520

1,600 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Norman Friedman of Kalispell, MT is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $34,520 across 1,600 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 87th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $385 17
2024 General $10,994 257
2023 General $6,022 261
2022 General $7,522 303
2021 General $4,013 339
2020 General $3,317 245
2019 General $2,267 178

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Norman Friedman
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Norman Friedman were reported at $385. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Norman Friedman Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,267 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $3,317 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $4,013 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $7,522 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $6,022 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $10,994 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $385 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Argenx US, Inc. $8,581 23 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $4,908 90 payments
  3. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $1,371 153 payments
  4. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,292 62 payments
  5. Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,286 122 payments
  6. SK Life Science, Inc. $1,078 61 payments
  7. EMD Serono, Inc. $1,050 71 payments
  8. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,039 87 payments
  9. Biogen, Inc. $980 82 payments
  10. UCB, Inc. $955 55 payments
  11. Other $11,981 794 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $22,756 1,541 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $9,700 3 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $1,586 6 payments
  4. Education $429 47 payments
  5. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $48 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. VYVGART $8,374 15 payments
  2. AIMOVIG $1,252 90 payments
  3. NURTEC ODT $1,081 80 payments
  4. ULTOMIRIS $761 33 payments
  5. OXTELLAR XR $728 71 payments
  6. DUOPA $665 28 payments
  7. TYSABRI $637 58 payments
  8. BOTOX $596 29 payments
  9. OCREVUS $570 32 payments
  10. TROKENDI XR $546 53 payments
  11. Other $16,999 1,197 payments

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 · 42 drugs

Part D claims

1,689

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$851,621

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

25.8%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Soliris Eculizumab Brand 19 $651,609
Austedo Deutetrabenazine Brand 13 $55,000
Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate Brand 30 $35,704
Xcopri Cenobamate Brand 22 $25,350
Emgality Pen Galcanezumab-Gnlm Brand 11 $15,180
Levetiracetam Generic 247 $10,600
Ajovy Autoinjector Fremanezumab-Vfrm Brand 12 $8,803
Dilantin Phenytoin Sodium Extended Brand 16 $6,988
Carbamazepine Generic 104 $6,480
Carbidopa-Levodopa Carbidopa/Levodopa Brand 151 $4,887

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 42 counted.

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 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 31 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$626,990

Of which drugs: $573,217

Medicare patients

225

Average age 72

Services billed

51,083

124 women, 101 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 70%
Arthritis 47%
Depression 32%
Diabetes 29%
Ischemic heart disease 20%
Chronic kidney disease 19%
Alzheimer's or dementia 16%
COPD 13%

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 49 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
VYVGART
$6,380 — —
ULTOMIRIS
$343 — —
BOTOX
$271 — —
Leqembi
$251 — —
Nayzilam
$209 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,600 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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 2025

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

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