Mark Nielson, MD
Anesthesiology · Muncie, INNPI 1942407838
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,650 of the $11,590 with a category attached, or 66.0%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 86.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,514 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $29 in 2024. Among anesthesiology clinicians in IN 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 43 payments — averaging $269.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$10K
- Medtronic$588
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$227
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$215
- Boston Scientific$196
- Avanos Medical$163
- plus $169 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,65066%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8507%
- Travel & lodging$1,18910%
- Food & beverage$1,90216%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 24 | $10,033 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $588 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $227 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $215 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $196 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $163 |
| Abbott | 1 | $115 |
| Stryker | 1 | $34 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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
$11,590 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,203 anesthesiology providers in Indiana.
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 anesthesiology in Muncie
- Jerome AdamsMuncie$85K
- Ankit BhatiaMuncie$12K
- Karampal SinghMuncie$5K
- Gareth MorganMuncie$2K
- Kenneth PrimmCrawfordsville$1M
- Brian SchmutzlerIndianapolis$384K
- Pieter VreedeRushville$379K
- Louis BojrabIndianapolis$130K
- Stephen StitleIndianapolis$109K
- Lucas MitchelIndianapolis$61K
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.