Nicholas Pulos, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1306139837
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 184 payments — averaging $295.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$44K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$4K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$1K
- Axogen$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Medartis Inc.$753
- plus $2K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,0007%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,50032%
- Travel & lodging$18,40634%
- Food & beverage$13,93926%
- Education$5901%
- Entertainment$100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 79 | $43,907 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 41 | $3,543 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 10 | $1,482 |
| Axogen | 17 | $1,426 |
| Stryker | 13 | $1,182 |
| Medartis Inc. | 7 | $753 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $750 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $474 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $229 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $201 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 1 | $173 |
| Aptis Medical, LLC | 1 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $117 |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
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.
- Tools - WFS$15,689
- INTEGRA$2,517
- Checkpoint Stimulators$1,270
- PRIMATRIX$1,167
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,167
- TENOGLIDE$832
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$677
- APTUS$672
- PRO$574
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$537
- TENOGLIDE TENDON PROTECTOR SHEET$533
- NEURAGEN NERVE GUIDE$533
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$424
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$424
- VARIAX$318
- NEURAGEN$271
- I-limb$229
- DYNOMITE$144
- Aptis DRUJ$134
- TFN-Advance$117
How this compares
$54,445 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 533 orthopaedic 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 orthopaedic surgery in Rochester
- Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
- Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
- John SperlingRochester$13.5M
- Robert TrousdaleRochester$12.2M
- Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10.5M
- David LewallenRochester$8.4M
- Rafael SierraRochester$5M
- Joaquin Sanchez-SoteloRochester$4.1M
- Michael TauntonRochester$3.5M
- Arlen HanssenRochester$3.2M
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.