Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Jacobo Nurko, MD

Individual provider Vascular Surgery Physician · NPI 1629262621

Jacobo Nurko, MD practises Vascular Surgery in Houston, Texas. Qualified in 2001, 25 years ago. Practices with SSM Health Care Group, a 923-clinician group, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.

Years since qualifying
25
Licensed in
AR, MO, TX
In the registry since
2007
Specialties on file
3
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

6550 Fannin St Ste 1401
Houston, TX 77030-2717
Phone: (713) 441-6566
Fax: (713) 790-3370
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Specialties & licences

Vascular Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 2086S0129X · Licence N6541 (TX)
Vascular Surgery Physician Taxonomy 2086S0129X · Licence 2025011251 (MO)
Specialist Taxonomy 174400000X · Licence E4793 (AR)

Record details

NPI number1629262621
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedSeptember 2, 2007
Last updated in NPPESOctober 8, 2025
Certification dateOctober 8, 2025

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyVASCULAR SURGERY
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2001 (25 years in practice)
Group practice Ssm Health Care Group — 923 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services
Practice locations9 on file with Medicare

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Leg revascularization (restoring blood flow) 54 times · 92nd percentile
Removal of tissue 121 times · 87th percentile
Varicose vein removal 68 times · 79th percentile
Removal of skin lesions 1–10 times
Skin biopsy 1–10 times

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients410
Services billed 1,224 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age74

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Food and Beverage $1,912 36 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

  • Ssm Health Saint Louis University Hospital Hospital · Saint Louis, MO · listed as Saint Louis University
  • Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital Hospital · Baytown, TX
  • Doctor'S Choice Home Care Home health agency · Houston, TX

Colleagues at SSM Health Care Group

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 923 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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