Nicholas Paulk, MD
Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1467604298
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 83 payments — averaging $65.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Medtronic$534
- TELA Bio, Inc.$153
- Teleflex LLC$105
- plus $173 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50028%
- Travel & lodging$1,09420%
- Food & beverage$2,85652%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $1,781 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $1,535 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 35 | $1,169 |
| Medtronic | 16 | $534 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $153 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $105 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $48 |
| Microline Surgical Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $25 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $21 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- DA VINCI SP$1,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$500
- Echelon Flex$376
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$223
- Sonicision$153
- Harmonic$144
- Enseal X1$105
- TITAN SGS BAILOUT CHUCK$105
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$101
How this compares
$5,450 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 202 surgery providers in Utah.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 18 | $364 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Salt Lake City
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- Daniel CottamSalt Lake City$294K
- Mark MawhinneySalt Lake City$169K
- Nathan RichardsSalt Lake City$162K
- Robert AndtbackaSalt Lake City$114K
- Jennwood ChenSalt Lake City$61K
- Brian CookSalt Lake City$60K
- Rodrick McKinlaySalt Lake City$55K
- Ellen MorrowSalt Lake City$41K
- Angelo ChachasSalt Lake City$33K
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.