Nicole Dellise
Family · Nashville, TNNPI 1023454733
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (38.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 45.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $29,830 and has fallen 92.7% since, to $2,186 in 2025. Among family clinicians in TN 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 486 payments — averaging $136.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$30K
- Abbott$29K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Boston Scientific$944
- AstraZeneca$304
- plus $2K from 23 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $15.89 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.
- Abiomed$16
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,47438%
- Travel & lodging$22,77734%
- Food & beverage$18,28627%
- Education$60%
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 | 165 | $30,424 |
| Abbott | 155 | $28,928 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 40 | $2,386 |
| Abiomed | 18 | $1,197 |
| Boston Scientific | 35 | $944 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $304 |
| Bayer | 2 | $240 |
| Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. | 1 | $233 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 10 | $232 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $186 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $176 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $147 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $142 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Amgen | 8 | $130 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $127 |
| Merck | 3 | $117 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 4 | $39 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Novartis | 2 | $28 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MitraClip$23,226
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$22,556
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,311
- CARDIOMEMS$1,159
- Impella$913
- WATCHMAN Access System$477
- CoreValve Evolut$446
- Kerendia$240
- OPTIMIZER$207
- Micra$156
- AMPLATZER TALISMAN$150
- FOTIVDA$131
- INJECTAFER$125
- Inpefa$122
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$122
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$118
- FARXIGA$117
- AMPLATZER AMULET$110
- Barostim Neo System$101
How this compares
$66,543 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,706 family providers in Tennessee.
Other family in Nashville
- Tamera ThoenerNashville$254K
- Jennifer WilliamsNashville$213K
- Lori LankfordNashville$148K
- Melissa RikalNashville$144K
- Lesley BallanceNashville$63K
- Jeffrey WoodsNashville$38K
- Courtney HavillNashville$35K
- Collette UtleyNashville$28K
- Stacy BrownMt Juliet$719K
- Dana WebberKnoxville$499K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.