James Nielsen, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pensacola, FLNPI 1295735710
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $127.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Cook Incorporated$576
- Cook Medical LLC$574
- Abbott$536
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,89155%
- Food & beverage$4,67844%
- Education$1501%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 39 | $4,658 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $2,306 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $1,031 |
| Cook Incorporated | 2 | $576 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 6 | $574 |
| Abbott | 4 | $536 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $346 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $305 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $121 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $84 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| CGG Medical Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $19 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $13 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $3 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$2,141
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,671
- Impella$1,031
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$952
- Evolution$928
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$309
- WATCHMAN Access System$268
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$235
- Epic$218
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$161
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$143
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$143
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$141
- HemoSphere$137
- TAGRISSO$125
- OPDIVO$121
How this compares
$10,719 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Pensacola
- Michael DefrainPensacola$283K
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Thomas BeaverGainesville$1.9M
- Brian BetheaDelray Beach$1.8M
- Joshua RovinClearwater$1.7M
- Kevin AccolaOrlando$1.7M
- Andrew ShermanTampa$1.6M
- Abelardo VargasSunny Isles Beach$1.1M
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$991K
- Bradley TaylorBoca Raton$904K
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.