Heather Mitzel
Nurse Practitioner · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1548299878
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.7% of the total across 251 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in SD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 251 payments — averaging $17.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$730
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$704
- Bayer$551
- Novartis$467
- Johnson & Johnson$415
- Boehringer Ingelheim$349
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2004%
- Food & beverage$4,22894%
- Education$822%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 33 | $730 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 28 | $704 |
| Bayer | 27 | $551 |
| Novartis | 26 | $467 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 38 | $415 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 22 | $349 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 12 | $209 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $203 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 13 | $203 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $169 |
| Amgen | 6 | $138 |
| Merck | 6 | $85 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $80 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 5 | $62 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $58 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Apria Healthcare LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Adempas$200
How this compares
$4,510 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 504 nurse practitioner providers in South Dakota.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Digoxin | 15 | $240 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Sioux Falls
- Jamie BuschSioux Falls$60K
- Jessica SlabaSioux Falls$41K
- Christopher NelsonSioux Falls$35K
- Katherine EricsonSioux Falls$13K
- Gabrielle PriceSioux Falls$5K
- Jacqueline KelleySioux Falls$5K
- Jessica YoshinoSioux Falls$5K
- Catherine McCulleySioux Falls$5K
- Tiffanie VaneimerenSioux Falls$4K
- Sara NewmanSioux Falls$4K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.