Nicolas Zea, MD
Vascular Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1083855050
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 178 payments — averaging $130.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$12K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$1K
- Terumo Medical Corporation$1K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$815
- plus $3K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$12,45854%
- Food & beverage$10,77746%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 36 | $12,057 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 17 | $2,292 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 32 | $2,162 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 25 | $1,414 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 7 | $1,087 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 10 | $815 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 8 | $590 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 12 | $526 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $413 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $306 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $295 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $210 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $177 |
| Truvic Medical, Inc. | 2 | $150 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $120 |
| BD | 3 | $119 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 2 | $115 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 1 | $62 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
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.
- ENDURANT IIS$10,256
- Indigo$1,965
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,005
- Navicross$816
- Glidesheath$816
- GlideWire$816
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$649
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$536
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$536
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$356
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$334
- ENDOCROSS Device$315
- Torus Stent Graft System$315
- MAGNIFY-S$306
- UNID_PASS$279
- Indigo System$266
- Endurant$265
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$262
- Penumbra System$231
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin Bioactive Surface$180
How this compares
$23,235 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 347 vascular surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 17 | $12,422 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 54 | $293 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 24 | $168 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Austin
- Mazin FotehAustin$2.5M
- Stephen SettleAustin$201K
- Joe WellsAustin$119K
- David NationAustin$108K
- Pedro TeixeiraAustin$56K
- Ryan TurleyAustin$45K
- Alan LumsdenHouston$2.4M
- Gregory PearlDallas$2.3M
- Gustavo OderichHouston$999K
- Michael SiahDallas$838K
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.