Peter Nelson, MD
Vascular Surgery · Tulsa, OKNPI 1043209307
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (42.9%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Avenu Medical Inc. at 37.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,252 and has fallen 93.3% since, to $216 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in OK, where the typical reported total is $6,612.
Across 50 payments — averaging $132.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Avenu Medical Inc.$2K
- Bolton Medical Inc$716
- Endologix LLC$677
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$524
- Shape Memory Medical Inc.$440
- Veryan Medical Incorporated$392
- plus $1K from 11 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $2027.31 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.
- Endologix LLC$8K
- Veryan Medical Incorporated$6K
- Medtronic$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5008%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5008%
- Travel & lodging$2,83943%
- Food & beverage$2,77342%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avenu Medical Inc. | 2 | $2,466 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $716 |
| Endologix LLC | 5 | $677 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $524 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 3 | $440 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 3 | $392 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 5 | $242 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $223 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $198 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $166 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $153 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Abbott | 2 | $37 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Stryker | 1 | $27 |
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.
- Ellipsys System$2,451
- Ovation$500
- Grafts$500
- IMPEDE EMBOLIZATION PLUG$388
- Relay Plus$216
- Sublime 014 Rx PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter$193
- Sublime Radial Access 018 RX PTA Dilatation Catheter$193
- Sublime Radial Access Guide Sheath$193
- Pounce Thrombectomy$193
- Pounce Venous Thrombectomy System$193
- BioMimics$180
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$156
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$156
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$156
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$156
- BioMimics 3D Vascular Stent System$148
- Penumbra System$146
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$131
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$129
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$117
How this compares
$6,612 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 35 vascular surgery providers in Oklahoma.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 53 | $791 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 15 | $205 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Tulsa
- Adel BarkatTulsa$459K
- Alexandros MalliosTulsa$251K
- Andres GuerraTulsa$40K
- John WeberTulsa$34K
- Julia ChenTulsa$16K
- Prashanth IyerTulsa$16K
- Steven PikeTulsa$7K
- Giancarlo PianoTulsa$6K
- Fernando MottaTulsa$4K
- Kelly KempeTulsa$3K
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.