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

BRUCE R NELSON

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Dermatology MOHS-Micrographic Surgery

NPI
1740377621
CMS profile
1153464
Location
HOUSTON, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2019

$202.88

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

Latest program year · PY2019

$175.39

21 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

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $175.39 21

By paying entity

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $157.21 20
Genentech USA, Inc. $18.18 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $27.49 2
PY2019 $175.39 21

Payment records · PY2019 (21)

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

Program year 2019 2018 Record-level detail is published for PY2019; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Genentech USA, Inc. $18.18 08/06/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 681332297 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $15.56 02/11/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695500403 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $4.00 02/19/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695666917 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $5.69 02/26/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695666919 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $6.01 03/05/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695666921 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $6.54 03/20/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695666923 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $13.91 04/29/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695463409 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $4.71 05/13/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695465509 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $4.47 05/21/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695518740 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $7.61 06/19/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695600431 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $13.02 06/24/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695599671 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $7.44 07/01/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695653663 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $8.36 07/09/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695690105 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $11.67 07/29/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695693265 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $3.18 09/17/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695759645 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $4.96 09/19/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695738013 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $9.82 09/26/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695786387 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $3.47 10/02/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695777309 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $8.20 10/09/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695829147 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $8.79 10/17/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695838615 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $9.80 10/30/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695907997 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
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2019_P01232026_01102026.csv

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