Evan Nielsen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Provo, UTNPI 1043527260
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 62 payments — averaging $136.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Signature Orthopaedics USA Corp$3K
- Trimed, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- KCI USA, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$913
- Bioventus LLC$138
- plus $708 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,56642%
- Travel & lodging$2,62431%
- Food & beverage$1,91623%
- Education$3784%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Signature Orthopaedics USA Corp | 1 | $2,566 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 2 | $1,688 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 20 | $1,439 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $1,032 |
| Stryker | 6 | $913 |
| Bioventus LLC | 7 | $138 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| UOC USA Inc | 1 | $86 |
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $78 |
| Pixee Medical Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $71 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $44 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Amgen | 2 | $34 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Tools - WFS$1,688
- PREVENA$1,000
- MAKO$791
- Persona$505
- ROSA$377
- Persona Revision$180
- iTotal CR$121
- ROSA-Knee$109
How this compares
$8,484 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 22 | $16,202 |
| Celecoxib | 273 | $5,505 |
| Mupirocin | 96 | $792 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 36 | $467 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 28 | $367 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 13 | $259 |
| Cephalexin | 25 | $223 |
| Meloxicam | 51 | $220 |
| Methylprednisolone | 28 | $207 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 25 | $141 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $112 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 13 | $54 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Provo
- Kirt KimballProvo$104K
- Jonathan FauxProvo$73K
- Matthew GreenProvo$20K
- Jeffrey WallentineProvo$19K
- David JoosProvo$16K
- Hugh WestMurray$14.2M
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Armen KhachatryanWest Jordan$3.9M
- Thomas CaltonWashington Terrace$3.5M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$3.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.