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 49

Doctor Specialty Location Total Records
, M.D Neurological Surgery Munster, IN $15.41 1
, MD Cardiovascular Disease Louisville, KY $15.05 1
, MD Surgery Wilmington, NC $15.03 1
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Los Angeles, CA $14.96 1
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery Los Angeles, CA $14.94 1
, MD Neurological Surgery La Jolla, CA $14.86 1
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Danbury, CT $14.82 1
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Danbury, CT $14.82 1
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine New Haven, CT $14.81 1
, M.D Neurological Surgery Galveston, TX $14.76 1
, PA-C Surgical Mercerville, NJ $14.56 1
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Marlton, NJ $14.29 1
, PA-C Physician Assistant Hoover, AL $14.02 1
, PA-C Surgical Kirkland, WA $13.50 1
, MD Neurological Surgery Merrillville, IN $13.12 1
, M.D Neurological Surgery Torrance, CA $13.09 1
Ilyas Eli Neurological Surgery Salt Lake City, UT $13.09 1
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Brick, NJ $12.64 1
, MD Vascular Surgery La Mesa, CA $12.54 1
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Augusta, GA $12.31 2
, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Wilmington, DE $11.82 1
, M.D Neurological Surgery East Setauket, NY $11.56 1
, M.D Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine East Setauket, NY $11.56 1
, MD Neurological Surgery Cleveland, OH $11.53 1
, CRNA Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered Sheffield, AL $11.37 1

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).