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Nelson Bernardo, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Washington, DCNPI 1255373692

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,220,357in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,073 payments — averaging $1137.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$401K
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$273K
  • Boston Scientific$217K
  • Surmodics, Inc.$64K
  • Endologix LLC$49K
  • Contego Medical, Inc$43K
  • plus $174K from 42 others
$4,974in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $829.07 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.

  • Microvention, Inc.$3K
  • Cook Research Incorporated$2K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,2002%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$27,16049%
  • Travel & lodging$5,49810%
  • Food & beverage$21,00938%
  • Education$1380%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

Too few interventional cardiology providers in District of Columbiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$164,442
Medicare patients
281
Services billed
753

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban26$24,197
BrilintaTicagrelor16$14,573
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate75$1,045
Carvedilol16$470
Pantoprazole Sodium14$175
Atorvastatin Calcium18$167
Losartan Potassium15$151
Metoprolol Succinate13$142
Prednisone13$54

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis$330$24,19726 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$777$14,57316 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. There are too few interventional cardiology providers in District of Columbiaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

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