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NICHOLAS EDWARD GERKEN

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1851688758
CMS profile
2790873
Location
SAN ANTONIO, TX

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General Payments · PY2019 · Entire year

$11,323.29

37 records · 0 disputed

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By nature of payment

PY2019 · entire year · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Education $5,486.00 4
Honoraria $3,000.00 2
Travel and Lodging $2,038.62 6
Food and Beverage $798.67 25

By paying entity

PY2019 · entire year · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
ACELL, INC. $5,486.00 4
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $5,484.93 16
Stryker Corporation $161.97 1
Abbott Laboratories $64.23 2
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $62.10 10
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $20.68 1
SI-BONE, Inc. $19.17 1
Horizon Therapeutics plc $13.29 1
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $10.92 1

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NICHOLAS EDWARD GERKEN

NPI 1851688758 · CMS profile ID 2790873

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / Orthopaedic Surgery

SAN ANTONIO, TX

A name match is not confirmation of identity. CMS publishes records for different people under similar names; the NPI, specialty, and location shown on this page are the CMS-published fields that distinguish them.

A payment attributed to a provider may have been made to a third party — a hospital, practice, or research institution — rather than paid to the provider personally.

General Payments, PY2019; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types

Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00

Page 1 of 1; records 1–37 of 37 matching records. This page contains 37 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export.

Filtered page: https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1851688758?year=2019&recipient=provider#records-h

CMS source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/4e54dd6c-30f8-4f86-86a7-3c109a89528e

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NICHOLAS EDWARD GERKEN, NPI 1851688758, CMS profile ID 2790873. General Payments, PY2019; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types. Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00. Page 1 of 1; records 1–37 of 37 matching records. This page contains 37 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. IndustryPayments. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1851688758?year=2019&recipient=provider#records-h. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/4e54dd6c-30f8-4f86-86a7-3c109a89528e.
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IndustryPayments. (2026). NICHOLAS EDWARD GERKEN, NPI 1851688758, CMS profile ID 2790873. General Payments, PY2019; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types. Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00. Page 1 of 1; records 1–37 of 37 matching records. This page contains 37 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. [Filtered data set page]. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1851688758?year=2019&recipient=provider#records-h. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/4e54dd6c-30f8-4f86-86a7-3c109a89528e.
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NICHOLAS EDWARD GERKEN, NPI 1851688758, CMS profile ID 2790873, IndustryPayments, General Payments, PY2019; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types (Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00). Page 1 of 1; records 1–37 of 37 matching records. This page contains 37 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/4e54dd6c-30f8-4f86-86a7-3c109a89528e. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1851688758?year=2019&recipient=provider#records-h.

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General Payments · PY2019 · Physicians and non-physician practitioners · CMS publication 2026-06-30

37 matching records · $11,323.29 reported total · 0 disputed

Nature of payment: All payment types

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Showing records 1–37 of 37.

Paying entityAmountDate Nature of paymentDispute statusPublication flagsPublished Record IDSource
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $5.2312/19/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 693226605 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $7.4912/16/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 693226369 CMS
Stryker Corporation $161.9712/06/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 692842517 CMS
ACELL, INC. $1,588.0011/18/2019 Education No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 660547549 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $1.3911/18/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 693225155 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $3.0411/18/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 693225157 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $4.4311/18/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 693225159 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $10.9211/01/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 648736975 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $1,500.0010/24/2019 Honoraria No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038369 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $130.5710/15/2019 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038343 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $411.8010/15/2019 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038345 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $12.6310/11/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038347 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $43.3610/11/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038349 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $5.7310/08/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 693223367 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $36.9409/24/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038325 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $60.2809/24/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038327 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $255.0009/10/2019 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038329 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $375.0009/10/2019 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038331 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $112.0409/06/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038333 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $5.5408/20/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 693221087 CMS
ACELL, INC. $722.0008/19/2019 Education No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 660541507 CMS
ACELL, INC. $1,588.0007/29/2019 Education No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 660545653 CMS
ACELL, INC. $1,588.0007/18/2019 Education No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 660545569 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $35.1007/17/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 666903375 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $2.9907/11/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 693219573 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $29.1307/02/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 666927869 CMS
Horizon Therapeutics plc $13.2907/01/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 691381795 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $20.6806/18/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: CHANGED
06/30/2026 699429785 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $1,500.0005/31/2019 Honoraria No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038367 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $231.2904/22/2019 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038355 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $12.1604/02/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 693214467 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $634.9603/29/2019 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038365 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $30.0003/27/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038351 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $42.0003/27/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038353 CMS
Orthofix Medical, Inc. $14.1003/11/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 693213595 CMS
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $109.0603/06/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 696038323 CMS
SI-BONE, Inc. $19.1701/21/2019 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 689402987 CMS

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $11,323.29 37
PY2020 $2,059.49 27
PY2021 $1,978.60 12
PY2022 $118.46 3
PY2023 $58.58 2
PY2024 $4,473.34 6
PY2025 $19,789.31 19

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
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