Pulse

Device NuVasive, Inc.
Total Payments
$5.4M
Transactions
7,498
Doctors
1,240
Companies
2

Payment Trends by Year

Year Amount Transactions Doctors
2024 $62,397 57 38
2023 $2.1M 1,131 282
2022 $897,278 1,579 446
2021 $825,601 1,733 348
2020 $491,909 571 168
2019 $860,362 1,839 521
2018 $134,865 588 193

Payments by Nature

Nature of Payment Amount Transactions Share
Royalty or License $3.0M 57 54.9%
Consulting Fee $1.4M 619 25.9%
Travel and Lodging $725,417 2,826 13.5%
Food and Beverage $296,572 3,988 5.5%
Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $4,800 1 0.1%
Education $1,771 3 0.0%
Entertainment $179.20 4 0.0%

Top Doctors Receiving Payments for Pulse — Page 3

Doctor Specialty Location Total Records
, D.O Orthopaedic Surgery Athens, AL $9,045 48
Adam Kanter Neurological Surgery Pittsburgh, PA $7,837 45
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery Joliet, IL $7,258 7
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery Newton Center, MA $6,413 29
, MD Specialist Ypsilanti, MI $6,278 4
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery Washington, DC $5,996 20
, MD Specialist Wilmington, NC $5,820 18
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine New York, NY $5,752 22
, MD Neurological Surgery Miami, FL $5,549 4
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Madison, WI $5,430 36
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Southlake, TX $5,261 9
, M.D Neurological Surgery Walla Walla, WA $4,861 10
, MD Neurological Surgery Atlanta, GA $4,781 41
, MD, MA Neurological Surgery Los Angeles, CA $4,647 22
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery Southfield, MI $4,551 6
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery Rockville Centre, NY $4,512 24
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery Lebanon, NH $4,126 17
, MD, PHD Neurological Surgery San Francisco, CA $4,080 33
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery La Jolla, CA $3,812 32
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Birmingham, AL $3,531 25
, M.D Neurological Surgery San Francisco, CA $3,512 6
, MD Neurological Surgery Downers Grove, IL $3,396 13
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery Hamilton, NJ $3,388 9
, DO Orthopaedic Surgery Enterprise, AL $3,296 13
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Birmingham, AL $3,262 11

About Pulse

Pulse is a device associated with $5.4M in payments to 1,240 healthcare providers, recorded across 7,498 transactions in the CMS Open Payments database. The primary manufacturer is NuVasive, Inc..

Payment data is available from 2018 to 2024. In 2024, $62,397 was paid across 57 transactions to 38 doctors.

The most common payment nature for Pulse is "Royalty or License" ($3.0M, 54.9% of total).