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

Carol Nelson

Neurology Mitchell, SD Medical Doctor

NPI 1003823410 CMS profile 45389

1415 N Sanborn Blvd, Mitchell, SD 57301

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General payments

$59,662

265 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, Carol Nelson of Mitchell, SD is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $59,662 across 265 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 90th 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 $50,399 97
2024 General $8,013 48
2023 General $314 22
2022 General $76 4
2021 General $159 4
2020 General $17 1
2019 General $685 89

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Carol Nelson were reported at $50,399. 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 Carol Nelson Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $685 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $17 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $159 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $76 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $314 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $8,013 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $50,399 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $31,523 93 payments
  2. Pfizer Inc. $23,069 58 payments
  3. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $3,945 5 payments
  4. Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $324 47 payments
  5. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $227 34 payments
  6. Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $159 4 payments
  7. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $93 5 payments
  8. Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. $62 3 payments
  9. Allergan Inc. $44 3 payments
  10. Celgene Corporation $33 2 payments
  11. Other $183 11 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $52,335 15 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $3,062 240 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $3,050 2 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $1,214 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. QULIPTA $31,139 61 payments
  2. NURTEC ODT Pain $23,069 58 payments
  3. UBRELVY $20,921 63 payments
  4. ZAVZPRET $485 42 payments
  5. TROKENDI XR $305 46 payments
  6. Ajovy $227 34 payments
  7. NURTEC ODT Primary Care $221 7 payments
  8. BOTOX Botox Therapeutic $177 12 payments
  9. ULTOMIRIS $93 5 payments
  10. BOTOX Hyperhydrosis $44 3 payments
  11. Other $300 19 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 · 31 drugs

Part D claims

972

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$51,103

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

36.1%

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
Qulipta Atogepant Brand 18 $19,074
Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate Brand 14 $14,669
Ropinirole Er Ropinirole Hcl Brand 15 $2,577
Carbidopa-Levodopa Carbidopa/Levodopa Brand 121 $2,551
Gabapentin Generic 213 $1,876
Carbidopa-Levodopa Er Carbidopa/Levodopa Brand 63 $1,833
Propranolol Hcl Er Propranolol Hcl Brand 27 $1,522
Levetiracetam Generic 39 $1,027
Rizatriptan Rizatriptan Benzoate Brand 18 $557
Venlafaxine Hcl Generic 12 $526

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 31 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 · 14 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$38,641

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

124

Average age 72

Services billed

3,613

84 women, 40 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 75%
Arthritis 45%
Diabetes 30%
Chronic kidney disease 26%
Depression 25%
Ischemic heart disease 23%
Osteoporosis 18%
COPD 15%

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 8 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
QULIPTA
  • AbbVie, Inc. $5,778
$5,778 18 —
UBRELVY
  • AbbVie, Inc. $1,942
$1,942 — —
NURTEC ODT
  • PFIZER INC. $104
$104 14 —
ZAVZPRET
  • PFIZER INC. $104
$104 — —
ULTOMIRIS
  • Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $41
$41 — —

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

265 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 2025

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

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