William Nelson, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · St Paul, MNNPI 1497728711
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 538 payments — averaging $2081.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CSL Behring$398K
- Novartis$397K
- Amgen$96K
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$88K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$61K
- Boston Scientific$60K
- plus $20K from 3 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring | 159 | $397,797 |
| Novartis | 18 | $396,857 |
| Amgen | 14 | $96,150 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 134 | $87,651 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 191 | $61,498 |
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $60,135 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg | 6 | $11,760 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $8,100 |
| Abbott | 1 | $133 |
How this compares
$1,120,080 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.
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.
Other cardiovascular disease in St Paul
- Jae OhRochester$7.9M
- Yogesh ReddyRochester$7.9M
- Mayra GuerreroRochester$7.1M
- Martha GroganRochester$6.3M
- Leslie ForgoshSaint Paul$6.2M
- Jeffrey ChambersMinneapolis$3.6M
- Mackram EleidRochester$3.5M
- David HolmesRochester$2.4M
- Mohamad Adnan AlkhouliRochester$2.1M
- Srijoy MahapatraRochester$2M
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.