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 48

Doctor Specialty Location Total Records
, MD, PHD Neurological Surgery Charlotte, NC $20.79 2
, MD Neurological Surgery Marietta, GA $20.57 1
Gerald Oh Neurological Surgery Murrieta, CA $19.59 1
, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program San Francisco, CA $19.23 1
, MD Neurological Surgery Dothan, AL $19.20 1
, MD Anesthesiology Dothan, AL $19.19 1
, M.D Specialist Bend, OR $19.00 1
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Columbia, MO $18.64 1
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery San Diego, CA $18.25 1
, D.O Orthopaedic Surgery Montclair, NJ $18.21 1
, D.O Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Chester, NJ $18.21 1
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Savannah, GA $18.18 1
, MD Neurological Surgery Philadelphia, PA $18.01 1
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery Orange, CA $17.84 1
, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Pittsburgh, PA $17.47 1
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery Philadelphia, PA $17.40 1
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Murfreesboro, TN $17.36 1
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Las Vegas, NV $17.21 1
, M.D Electrodiagnostic Medicine Dover, DE $17.07 1
, M.D Physician Assistant Marietta, GA $16.52 1
, MD Neurological Surgery Oak Lawn, IL $16.37 1
, MD Cardiovascular Disease Evansville, IN $16.33 1
Zachary Medress Neurological Surgery Portland, OR $16.32 1
, D.O Neurological Surgery Palm Springs, CA $16.00 1
, M.D Neurological Surgery Staten Island, NY $15.79 2

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).