Kyle Nelson, MD
Neurological Surgery · Coon Rapids, MNNPI 1194987289
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $11,100 of the $17,540 with a category attached, or 63.3%. Surgical Information Sciences, Inc. accounts for 63.3% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $7,920 and has fallen 91.9% since, to $643 in 2025.
Across 103 payments — averaging $170.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Surgical Information Sciences, Inc.$11K
- Medtronic$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$444
- Boston Scientific$372
- Procept Biorobotics Corporation$324
- plus $664 from 10 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $5280.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,10063%
- Travel & lodging$1,73610%
- Food & beverage$4,68427%
- Education$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surgical Information Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $11,100 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 57 | $3,315 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $1,321 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 4 | $444 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $372 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 3 | $324 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $151 |
| Neuropace, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 3 | $97 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $75 |
| Abbott | 3 | $71 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $41 |
| Stryker | 2 | $37 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| AbbVie | 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.
- ROSA$1,024
- MazorX - Renaissance$800
- SIS System$600
- VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR$362
- ACTIVA$300
- RNS Neurostimulator Kit$147
- AQUABEAM SYSTEM$145
- AquaBeam Robotic System$135
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$134
- O-ARM-Spine$133
- Neuro Plating System$129
- ELEVATE$123
- GENERAL DBS$107
How this compares
$17,540 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 140 neurological surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 neurological surgery in Coon Rapids
- Hart GarnerCoon Rapids$74K
- Kendall LeeRochester$2.3M
- Michael FinnEdina$1.4M
- Stanley SkinnerMinneapolis$445K
- Rohan LallEdina$227K
- Matthew DaviesDuluth$163K
- Vijay AgarwalRochester$101K
- Frederick HarrisBurnsville$92K
- Andrew GrandeSaint Paul$88K
- Benjamin ElderRochester$69K
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.