Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

NICHOLAS A GRIMALDI

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1528080777
CMS profile
204747
Location
COLUMBIA, SC

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$15,162.41

  • Reported across 156 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$803.20

20 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

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $803.20 20

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,717.94 20
PY2019 $3,783.43 26
PY2020 $1,460.30 20
PY2021 $2,507.77 21
PY2022 $2,426.14 23
PY2023 $2,463.63 26
PY2024 $803.20 20

Payment records · PY2024 (20)

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

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $18.11 01/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125108940 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $18.82 07/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125108942 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $19.75 11/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125108944 CMS
Amgen Inc. $14.33 04/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115681393 CMS
Amgen Inc. $14.17 06/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115681401 CMS
Amgen Inc. $16.89 08/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115681411 CMS
Amgen Inc. $15.84 09/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115681419 CMS
Amgen Inc. $17.90 10/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115681428 CMS
Amgen Inc. $15.41 11/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115681436 CMS
Cerapedics Inc. $39.66 08/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1133356738 CMS
Cerapedics Inc. $37.09 10/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1133356740 CMS
Ethicon US, LLC $17.75 10/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077645710 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $20.70 02/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119359805 CMS
Nevro Corp. $20.44 02/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1130741654 CMS
Providence Medical Technology, Inc. $234.40 12/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1089605563 CMS
SI-BONE, INC. $27.55 06/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1120065421 CMS
Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc $22.28 03/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1126612479 CMS
Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc $52.58 11/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1126612481 CMS
SPINEFRONTIER, INC. $162.09 06/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153800201 CMS
VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED $17.44 10/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105917008 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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