RxDoctor Payments Data

Russell Nelson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1285628966

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,617in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 50 payments — averaging $52.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$2K
  • Camber Spine Technologies LLC$631
  • Pfizer$230
  • Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$39
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$39
  • Biocomposites Inc$33
  • plus $54 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,39453%
  • Food & beverage$1,22347%

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$2,617 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$160,234
Medicare patients
237
Services billed
2,197

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban30$14,149
Celecoxib178$3,925
Oxycodone Hcl174$1,453
Cephalexin51$726
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen32$318
Tramadol Hcl49$294
Meloxicam42$291
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron19$216
Gabapentin15$214
Amoxicillin54$131
Methylprednisolone14$129
Hydromorphone Hcl23$115
Ondansetron Hcl14$87
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim12$82
Clindamycin Hcl21$47

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis$230$14,14930 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 35th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Salt Lake City

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