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

Nicholas Pulos

Orthopaedic Surgery Rochester, MN Medical Doctor

NPI 1306139837 CMS profile 149980

200 1St St Sw, Rochester, MN 55905

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General payments

$54,445

184 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, Nicholas Pulos of Rochester, MN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $54,445 across 184 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 89th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery 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 $12,154 34
2024 General $8,803 35
2023 General $17,061 41
2022 General $7,389 24
2021 General $3,870 26
2020 General $1,094 9
2019 General $4,074 15

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Nicholas Pulos
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Nicholas Pulos were reported at $12,154. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Nicholas Pulos Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $4,074 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $1,094 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $3,870 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $7,389 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $17,061 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $8,803 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $12,154 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. TriMed, Inc. $43,907 79 payments
  2. Integra LifeSciences Corporation $3,543 41 payments
  3. Checkpoint Surgical, Inc $1,482 10 payments
  4. AxoGen $1,426 17 payments
  5. Stryker Corporation $1,182 13 payments
  6. Medartis Inc. $753 7 payments
  7. Synthes GmbH $750 2 payments
  8. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $474 5 payments
  9. Ossur Americas., Inc $229 1 payment
  10. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $201 5 payments
  11. Other $497 4 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Travel and Lodging $18,406 35 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $13,939 129 payments
  3. Honoraria $7,500 3 payments
  4. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $6,750 4 payments
  5. Consulting Fee $4,000 2 payments
  6. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $3,250 2 payments
  7. Education $590 8 payments
  8. Entertainment $10 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Tools - WFS $17,095 32 payments
  2. Checkpoint Stimulators $1,482 10 payments
  3. PRIMATRIX $1,369 13 payments
  4. INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE $1,369 13 payments
  5. Integra Recon-Skin And Wound $1,031 9 payments
  6. TENOGLIDE $908 15 payments
  7. Avance Nerve Graft $874 8 payments
  8. Integra Recon-Skin And Wound $859 8 payments
  9. Integra Recon-Skin And Wound $859 8 payments
  10. TENOGLIDE TENDON PROTECTOR SHEET $616 7 payments
  11. Other $7,388 80 payments

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

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 60 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$37,355

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

115

Average age 72

Services billed

267

61 women, 54 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 67%
Arthritis 62%
Chronic kidney disease 30%
Diabetes 23%
Depression 23%
Ischemic heart disease 21%
Osteoporosis 20%
Heart failure 18%

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

184 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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