Kaitlyn Nelson
Physician Assistant · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1649604281
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $236,188 of the $288,513 with a category attached, or 81.9%. AbbVie accounts for 86.8% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $123,251 and has fallen 79.2% since, to $25,669 in 2025. Among physician assistant clinicians in NY 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 286 payments — averaging $1008.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$250K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$37K
- Merz North America, Inc.$883
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$336
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,3946%
- Speaking & faculty fees$236,18882%
- Travel & lodging$27,95810%
- Food & beverage$5,9732%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 249 | $250,495 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 28 | $36,798 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 4 | $883 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $336 |
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.
How this compares
$288,513 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 11,358 physician assistant providers in New York.
Other physician assistant in Brooklyn
- Melissa VelezBrooklyn$68K
- Steven KongBrooklyn$66K
- Hong ChenBrooklyn$57K
- Lindsey AxtBrooklyn$52K
- Gregory CelestinBrooklyn$41K
- Henry YuBronx$1M
- Michael AsbachAmherst$962K
- Janelle BunceJamestown$565K
- Kristyl Cuenca-SiskoNew York$478K
- Melissa WhiteGarden City$320K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.