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

John Nelson

Internal Medicine Fresno, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1003908591 CMS profile 136335

7061 N Whitney, Suite 101, Fresno, CA 93720

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General payments

$412,561

866 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$2,874

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, John Nelson of Fresno, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $412,561 across 866 general payments and $2,874 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 99th percentile of Internal Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $19,526 73
2024 General $4,445 59
2023 General $14,322 83
2022 General $27,896 86
2021 General $27,368 96
2020 General $65,511 143
2019 General $253,493 326
2019 Research $2,874 1

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to John Nelson were reported at $19,526. Among 52,115 Internal Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $156 and the middle half received between $47 and $551.

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Year John Nelson Internal Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $253,493 $159 $48–$570 $163
2020 $65,511 $119 $33–$402 $114
2021 $27,368 $135 $37–$521 $132
2022 $27,896 $141 $42–$496 $149
2023 $14,322 $149 $45–$519 $160
2024 $4,445 $154 $47–$537 $164
2025 $19,526 $156 $47–$551 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amarin Pharma Inc. $239,000 300 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $90,373 250 payments
  3. Lilly USA, LLC $32,475 40 payments
  4. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $26,041 41 payments
  5. Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $17,585 70 payments
  6. Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $4,237 32 payments
  7. Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $846 37 payments
  8. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $831 55 payments
  9. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $364 10 payments
  10. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $117 6 payments
  11. Other $692 25 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 $325,231 131 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $58,766 161 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $15,439 567 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $13,125 7 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Vascepa Hypertriglyceridemia $179,285 200 payments
  2. Repatha Cardiology $71,579 208 payments
  3. Vascepa Cardiovascular $59,715 100 payments
  4. JARDIANCE Diabetes $30,063 35 payments
  5. JARDIANCE Diabetes $26,020 40 payments
  6. REPATHA Cardiovascular $18,794 42 payments
  7. NEXLETOL $17,585 70 payments
  8. NEXLIZET $16,860 14 payments
  9. EVKEEZA $4,066 27 payments
  10. Livalo $846 37 payments
  11. Other $3,760 163 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $2,874 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 53 drugs

Part D claims

5,612

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$1,738,079

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

32.9%

Median for Cardiology: 25.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 511 $628,614
Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl Brand 429 $341,499
Nexlizet Bempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe Brand 177 $153,785
Icosapent Ethyl Generic 332 $136,222
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 65 $91,907
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 64 $64,470
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 44 $49,465
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 29 $37,405
Pitavastatin Calcium Generic 85 $34,898
Ezetimibe Generic 932 $33,892

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 53 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 18,782 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 17 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$228,959

Of which drugs: $286

Medicare patients

426

Average age 76

Services billed

3,473

228 women, 198 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
Diabetes 75%
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 75%
Arthritis 46%
Chronic kidney disease 41%
Atrial fibrillation 21%
Osteoporosis 19%
Cancer 15%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, aminophyllin, up to 250 mg J0280 Office 47 47 $286

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 11 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
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $3,604
$3,604 524 —
EVKEEZA
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $315
$315 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $187
$187 — —
NEXLETOL
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $81
$81 — —
VYNDAMAX
  • PFIZER INC. $78
$78 — —

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

867 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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