Clinical Nurse Specialist Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Paula McDermott

Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care Medicine Littleton, CO Clinical Nurse Specialist

NPI 1891931986 CMS profile 10635301

1000 Southpark Dr, Littleton, CO 80120

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General payments

$33,618

269 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Paula McDermott of Littleton, CO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $33,618 across 269 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 99th percentile of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $24,378 102
2024 General $2,017 60
2023 General $2,171 49
2022 General $1,091 25
2021 General $3,961 33

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Paula McDermott
  • Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care Medicine median
  • Middle half of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Paula McDermott were reported at $24,378. Among 64 Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $203 and the middle half received between $69 and $463.

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Year Paula McDermott Clinical Nurse Specialist, Critical Care Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $0 — — $163
2020 $0 — — $114
2021 $3,961 $116 $52–$319 $132
2022 $1,091 $163 $44–$271 $149
2023 $2,171 $180 $66–$328 $160
2024 $2,017 $150 $50–$433 $164
2025 $24,378 $203 $69–$463 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Pfizer Inc. $15,700 55 payments
  2. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $7,430 23 payments
  3. Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. $2,730 5 payments
  4. Abbott Laboratories $1,083 17 payments
  5. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $1,009 23 payments
  6. CVRx, Inc. $984 9 payments
  7. Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. $936 12 payments
  8. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $741 38 payments
  9. Boston Scientific Corporation $712 9 payments
  10. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $480 10 payments
  11. Other $1,814 68 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $12,653 13 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $9,670 238 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $9,100 7 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $2,152 8 payments
  5. Education $43 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. VYNDAQEL $15,090 50 payments
  2. AMVUTTRA $7,430 23 payments
  3. TEGSEDI $1,800 4 payments
  4. VYNDAMAX $1,048 5 payments
  5. Barostim Neo System $984 9 payments
  6. OPTIMIZER Cardiovascular Device $787 11 payments
  7. OPTIMIZER Cardiovascular Device $787 11 payments
  8. CARDIOMEMS $547 8 payments
  9. WAINUA $525 12 payments
  10. CAMZYOS $506 24 payments
  11. Other $4,919 146 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 · 27 drugs

Part D claims

2,753

Median for Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist: 344

Drug cost

$5,531,929

Median for Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist: $20,739

Branded share of claims

32%

Median for Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist: 20.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Vyndamax Tafamidis Brand 175 $4,181,736
Vyndaqel Tafamidis Meglumine Brand 27 $738,001
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 376 $310,531
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 127 $129,367
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 69 $66,468
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 62 $61,403
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 18 $19,046
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 361 $4,354
Eplerenone Generic 59 $4,132
Valsartan Generic 216 $3,868

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 27 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 1,644 Part D prescribers listed as Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 12 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$56,587

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

266

Average age 79

Services billed

916

133 women, 133 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%
Heart failure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 75%
Atrial fibrillation 70%
Chronic kidney disease 58%
Arthritis 54%
Diabetes 42%
COPD 33%

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 15 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
CAMZYOS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $204
$204 — —
WAINUA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $167
$167 — —
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $150
$150 69 —
VYNDAQEL
  • PFIZER INC. $133
$133 27 —
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $64
$64 — —

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

269 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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