Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

CHRISTOPHER D NIELSEN

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Interventional Cardiology

NPI
1477661429
CMS profile
111927
Location
MYRTLE BEACH, SC

General Payments · PY2019–2025

$2,078.62

  • Reported across 58 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$332.05

14 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $332.05 14

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $439.23 10
PY2020 $212.01 4
PY2021 $139.07 3
PY2022 $124.82 7
PY2023 $251.90 7
PY2024 $579.54 13
PY2025 $332.05 14

Payment records · PY2025 (14)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2025 201920202021202220232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $15.01 03/26/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1240731137 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $14.86 09/09/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1240798604 CMS
ABIOMED $24.91 05/07/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174956863 CMS
AngioDynamics, Inc. $22.22 09/18/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1220858226 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $32.55 08/20/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1174123365 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $14.52 05/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1181228834 CMS
Inari Medical, Inc. $22.72 01/31/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1248573335 CMS
Innovation Technologies Inc $16.75 10/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1208801014 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $16.89 07/22/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1218900158 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $47.33 07/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1218900160 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $23.54 06/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1200772975 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $27.22 07/31/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1200772983 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $28.90 12/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1200656728 CMS
Shockwave Medical, Inc $24.63 05/05/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1173955734 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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