Total Payments
$55,233
2024 Payments
$42,841
Companies
23
Transactions
130
Medicare Patients
767
Medicare Billing
$271,043

Payment Breakdown by Category

Consulting$27,400 (49.6%)
Travel$19,751 (35.8%)
Food & Beverage$7,557 (13.7%)
Other$524.03 (0.9%)

Payments by Nature

Nature of Payment Amount Transactions Share
Consulting Fee $27,400 3 49.6%
Travel and Lodging $19,751 25 35.8%
Food and Beverage $7,557 101 13.7%
Grant $524.03 1 0.9%

Top Paying Companies

Company Total Records Latest Year
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $36,708 28 $0 (2024)
Abbott Laboratories $8,267 15 $0 (2024)
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $2,952 16 $0 (2024)
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. $1,806 12 $0 (2024)
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $1,128 7 $0 (2023)
Medtronic, Inc. $704.46 3 $0 (2023)
ATRICURE, INC. $676.30 21 $0 (2024)
Baxter Healthcare $460.10 4 $0 (2024)
Paragonix Technologies, Inc. $343.68 3 $0 (2023)
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $269.25 2 $0 (2022)

Payment History by Year

Year Amount Transactions Top Company
2024 $42,841 57 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ($35,648)
2023 $9,777 42 Abbott Laboratories ($5,665)
2022 $1,374 14 Abbott Laboratories ($422.11)
2021 $961.18 13 ATRICURE, INC. ($191.46)
2020 $279.02 4 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation ($212.63)

All Payment Transactions

130 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 6

Date Company Product Nature Form Amount Type
12/18/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EVOQUE (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $160.04 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Repair
12/13/2024 ATRICURE, INC. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $26.21 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
12/06/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EVOQUE (Device) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $95.55 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Repair
12/05/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $117.67 General
Category: Transcatheter Heart Valves
11/15/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EVOQUE (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $325.43 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Repair
11/14/2024 LSI SOLUTIONS INC COR-KNOT (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $124.56 General
Category: CARDIOTHORACIC
11/11/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EVOQUE (Device) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $702.06 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Repair
11/11/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EVOQUE (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $75.85 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Repair
11/11/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EVOQUE (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $68.60 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Repair
11/11/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EVOQUE (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $55.63 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Repair
11/04/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation EVOQUE (Device) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $849.17 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Repair
09/27/2024 ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) LifeVest (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $133.64 General
Category: Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus
09/26/2024 ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) LifeVest (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $44.55 General
Category: Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus
08/28/2024 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation PASCAL (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $45.89 General
Category: Transcatheter Valve Repair
08/01/2024 Abbott Laboratories Consulting Fee Cash or cash equivalent $2,000.00 General
Category: Structural Heart
07/31/2024 Abbott Laboratories Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $34.32 General
Category: Structural Heart
06/25/2024 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ULTOMIRIS (Biological) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $291.96 General
Category: Rare Disease
06/25/2024 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ULTOMIRIS (Biological) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $291.96 General
Category: Rare Disease
06/25/2024 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ULTOMIRIS (Biological) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $256.60 General
Category: Rare Disease
06/25/2024 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ULTOMIRIS (Biological) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $135.00 General
Category: Rare Disease
06/25/2024 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ULTOMIRIS (Biological) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $134.20 General
Category: Rare Disease
06/25/2024 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ULTOMIRIS (Biological) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $70.00 General
Category: Rare Disease
06/25/2024 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ULTOMIRIS (Biological) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $59.99 General
Category: Rare Disease
06/25/2024 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ULTOMIRIS (Biological) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $59.99 General
Category: Rare Disease
06/25/2024 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ULTOMIRIS (Biological) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $56.45 General
Category: Rare Disease

Medicare Billing by Year

Year Procedures Beneficiaries Services Submitted Medicare Paid
2023 7 240 241 $1.3M $82,130
2022 8 227 255 $1.3M $89,853
2021 11 275 362 $1.3M $95,905
2020 1 25 55 $12,320 $3,155
Total Patients
767
Total Services
913
Medicare Billing
$271,043
Procedure Codes
27

All Medicare Procedures & Services

27 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization — Page 1 of 2

HCPCS Description Setting Year Patients Services Charges Medicare Paid Ratio
33361 Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery Facility 2023 80 80 $879,545 $44,138 5.0%
33533 Coronary artery bypass using artery graft, 1 graft Facility 2023 19 19 $338,314 $24,679 7.3%
99205 New patient office or other outpatient visit, 60-74 minutes Facility 2023 66 66 $32,340 $8,656 26.8%
33370 Placement and subsequent removal of device to protect brain from embolism through catheter using imaging guidance Facility 2023 27 27 $13,689 $2,657 19.4%
76998 Ultrasonic guidance during surgery Facility 2023 20 20 $24,320 $915.80 3.8%
99214 Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes Facility 2023 11 12 $3,108 $883.20 28.4%
33508 Harvest of vein using an endoscope Facility 2023 17 17 $51,731 $200.94 0.4%
33361 Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery Facility 2022 64 64 $702,331 $42,189 6.0%
33533 Coronary artery bypass using artery graft, 1 graft Facility 2022 22 22 $391,732 $27,118 6.9%
99205 New patient office or other outpatient visit, 60-74 minutes Facility 2022 54 54 $25,470 $7,339 28.8%
99291 Critical care, first 30-74 minutes Facility 2022 12 40 $38,400 $6,353 16.5%
33518 Coronary artery bypass using vein or artery graft, 2 grafts Facility 2022 11 11 $30,679 $3,452 11.3%
33370 Placement and subsequent removal of device to protect brain from embolism through catheter using imaging guidance Facility 2022 20 20 $10,140 $1,976 19.5%
76998 Ultrasonic guidance during surgery Facility 2022 25 25 $30,400 $1,189 3.9%
33508 Harvest of vein using an endoscope Facility 2022 19 19 $57,817 $236.66 0.4%
33533 Heart artery bypass, single graft Facility 2021 31 31 $562,670 $39,108 7.0%
33361 Replacement of aortic valve with prosthetic valve, accessed through the skin Facility 2021 43 43 $467,496 $24,786 5.3%
99291 Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes Facility 2021 39 111 $105,515 $18,738 17.8%
33518 Combined vein and artery heart artery bypass, 2 grafts Facility 2021 12 12 $33,468 $3,501 10.5%
99204 New patient outpatient visit, total time 45-59 minutes Facility 2021 25 25 $8,153 $2,626 32.2%
99232 Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day Facility 2021 26 41 $9,244 $2,260 24.4%
99203 New patient outpatient visit, total time 30-44 minutes Facility 2021 22 22 $4,248 $1,334 31.4%
99222 Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day Facility 2021 12 12 $5,051 $1,250 24.7%
76998 Ultrasonic guidance during surgery Facility 2021 25 25 $30,400 $1,192 3.9%
99221 Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 30 minutes per day Facility 2021 11 11 $3,415 $771.40 22.6%

About Dr. Nicolas Pope, MD

Dr. Nicolas Pope, MD is a Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program healthcare provider based in Charleston, South Carolina. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 03/30/2010. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1154646479.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, Dr. Nicolas Pope, MD has received a total of $55,233 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $42,841 received in 2024. These payments were reported across 130 transactions from 23 companies. The most common payment nature is "Consulting Fee" ($27,400).

As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Pope has provided services to 767 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 913 services with total Medicare billing of $271,043. Data is available for 4 years (2020–2023), covering 27 distinct procedure/service records.

Practice Information

Products in Payments

  • ULTOMIRIS (Biological) $13,308
  • EVOQUE (Device) $2,332
  • Da Vinci Surgical System (Device) $1,128
  • Product in Development (Device) $947.38
  • GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis (Device) $847.64
  • Paragonix SherpaPak Cardiac Transport System (Device) $343.68
  • PREVELEAK (Device) $228.15
  • ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2) (Device) $225.88
  • SHOCKWAVE IVL SYSTEM WITH THE SHOCKWAVE C2 CORONARY IVL CATHETER (Device) $202.74
  • PICO (Device) $196.72
  • Pleuraflow System with FlowGlide (Device) $191.60
  • ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (Device) $185.04
  • JenaValve Pericardial TAVR System (Device) $178.70
  • Relay Grafts (Device) $178.38
  • LifeVest (Device) $178.19
  • ENDURANT IIS (Device) $177.99
  • ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM (Device) $158.52
  • Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve (Device) $148.18
  • STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM (Device) $146.74
  • PASCAL (Device) $141.11

Data Sources

Provider data from NPPES. Payment data from CMS Open Payments. Medicare data from CMS Medicare Provider Utilization. All data is public and updated periodically.

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