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Derrick Courtney Nelson, DDS

NPI 1275914871ActiveIndividual· Dentist· Chapel Hill, NC

Dentist (DDS) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, licensed in NC, with an NPI issued in June 2015. Part D covered 85 prescriptions written in 2024, 99% of them generic. Depuy Synthes Sales Inc. was the largest of 4 companies reporting payments in 2025, $385.00 in all, mostly food and beverage.

Overview

NPI1275914871
StatusActive
Entity typeIndividual
CredentialDDS
Sole proprietorNo
NPI issuedJun 9, 2015
Last updated in NPPESApr 15, 2019

Specialties and licenses

TaxonomyCodeLicenseState
Dentist Primary122300000X10085NC
Dentist, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery1223S0112X10085NC

About license numbers in NPPES

Exclusion screening

ListResultDetails
HHS-OIG LEIE · Nov 10, 2026No matchChecked by NPI and by name + state
North Carolina Medicaid · Nov 11, 2026No match—
New York OMIG · Nov 11, 2026No match—
Ohio Medicaid · Nov 11, 2026No match—
Pennsylvania Medicheck · Nov 11, 2026No match—
Washington HCA · Nov 11, 2026No match—

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Medicare

Enrollment (PECOS)Enrolled Order and Referring Only - Oral Surgery (NC); Order and Referring Only - Other (Non-Physician) (NC)

Part D prescriptions in 2024

Prescriptions (claims)85 · 95 30-day fills
Patients38
Total drug cost$640.35
Generic share99% of claims

Medicare sources and data years

Industry payments (Open Payments)

  • 2025$385.00 · 8 payments from 4 companies
  • 2024$186.76 · 4 payments from 1 company

Top paying companies in 2025

CompanyAmountPayments
Depuy Synthes Sales Inc.$144.563
Axogen$122.121
Zimvie Inc.$64.662
Straumann USA LLC$53.662

What the 2025 payments were for

  • Food and Beverage$385.00 · 8 payments

Receiving payments does not imply wrongdoing. What Open Payments covers ·original records

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