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

Nelson Telles Garcia

Cardiovascular Disease Des Moines, IA Medical Doctor

NPI 1922360726 CMS profile 1186643

1215 Pleasant St Ste 414, Des Moines, IA 50309

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General payments

$7,023

381 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, Nelson Telles Garcia of Des Moines, IA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $7,023 across 381 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 76th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease 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 $505 38
2024 General $899 50
2023 General $1,140 28
2022 General $1,336 82
2021 General $1,443 91
2020 General $571 29
2019 General $1,129 63

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Nelson Telles Garcia
  • Cardiovascular Disease median
  • Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Nelson Telles Garcia were reported at $505. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.

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Year Nelson Telles Garcia Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $1,129 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $571 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $1,443 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $1,336 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $1,140 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $899 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $505 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,921 106 payments
  2. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $1,233 63 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $969 77 payments
  4. Astellas Pharma US Inc $382 4 payments
  5. Abbott Laboratories $370 22 payments
  6. Pfizer Inc. $289 13 payments
  7. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $258 19 payments
  8. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $245 8 payments
  9. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $230 10 payments
  10. Amgen Inc. $160 10 payments
  11. Other $965 49 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,301 372 payments
  2. Education $401 7 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $320 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. WATCHMAN Access System $1,835 102 payments
  2. LifeVest $1,233 63 payments
  3. ENTRESTO $689 62 payments
  4. XARELTO $258 19 payments
  5. JARDIANCE $212 9 payments
  6. VYNDAQEL $204 8 payments
  7. WAINUA $176 3 payments
  8. CardioMEMS HF System $151 10 payments
  9. Repatha $136 9 payments
  10. ELIQUIS $128 8 payments
  11. Other $1,803 105 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 · 63 drugs

Part D claims

9,627

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$2,031,383

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

27.9%

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
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 686 $587,588
Vyndaqel Tafamidis Meglumine Brand 23 $508,594
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 268 $256,657
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 257 $232,927
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 219 $186,754
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 175 $103,319
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 41 $31,630
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 22 $17,517
Praluent Pen Alirocumab Brand 23 $11,977
Repatha Syringe Evolocumab Brand 20 $11,309

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 63 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 · 67 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$185,636

Of which drugs: $757

Medicare patients

1,918

Average age 76

Services billed

4,698

1,059 women, 859 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 48%
Ischemic heart disease 44%
Chronic kidney disease 40%
Atrial fibrillation 36%
Heart failure 33%
Diabetes 31%
Depression 30%
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, regadenoson, 0.1 mg J2785 Office 16 64 $166

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
WAINUA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $141
$141 — —
Arcalyst
  • Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc $36
$36 — —
FUROSCIX
  • SCPHARMACEUTICALS INC. $35
$35 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $28
$28 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $17
$17 257 —

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

381 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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