Has Thelinh Nguyen, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $16,223 in general payments to Thelinh Nguyen, MD across 205 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Thelinh Nguyen, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Thelinh Nguyen, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Thelinh Nguyen, MD

Vascular Surgery · Reno, NVNPI 1720031982

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.3% of the total across 205 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 49.5% of the total.

$16,223in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 205 payments — averaging $79.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$8K
Shockwave Medical, Inc$3K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$693
Cook Medical LLC$468
Boston Scientific$411
plus $2K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$450%
Travel & lodging$7164%
Food & beverage$15,46295%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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(2 entities)	112	$8,022
Shockwave Medical, Inc	24	$3,241
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	16	$1,801
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	12	$693
Cook Medical LLC	9	$468
Boston Scientific	4	$411
Inari Medical, Inc.	2	$360
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$203
Olympus America Inc.	2	$176
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$173
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$151
Smith+Nephew	5	$118
Davol Inc.	1	$116
Medela LLC	2	$71
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	2	$50
BD	1	$45
Osiris Therapeutics Inc.	1	$27
Chiesi USA, Inc.	1	$25
Philips North America LLC	2	$25
Elutia, Inc.	1	$20
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$14
Biom'up France SAS	1	$13

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

$16,223 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 28 vascular surgery providers in Nevada.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$140,251

Medicare patients

231

Services billed

536

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
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	41	$518
Cilostazol	24	$362
Simvastatin	13	$77
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	14	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular surgery in Reno

Ashanga YatawattaReno$78K
Janet AlbrightReno$14K
Mark LevinReno$13K
David WarnerReno$4K
Jessica WilliamsReno$2K
Sherwood DixonReno$500
George SieffertReno$112
George PliagasLas Vegas$211K
Sai KottapalliLas Vegas$53K
Eddy LuhLas Vegas$34K

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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.

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