Who Paid My Doc
Christopher Nickele
Neurological Surgery Memphis, TN Medical Doctor
NPI 1285834630 CMS profile 1083802
6325 Humphreys Blvd, Semmes-Murphey Clinic, Memphis, TN 38120
General payments
$45,260
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$229,378
Through program year 2025, Christopher Nickele of Memphis, TN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $45,260 across 209 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $229,378 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 85th percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
7 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $8,834 | 29 | |
| 2024 | General | $3,337 | 40 | |
| 2023 | General | $14,426 | 42 | |
| 2022 | General | $2,483 | 34 | |
| 2021 | General | $831 | 12 | |
| 2020 | General | $97 | 5 | |
| 2019 | General | $15,250 | 47 |
Beside peers
- Christopher Nickele
- Neurological Surgery median
- Middle half of Neurological Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Nickele were reported at $8,834. Among 5,467 Neurological Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $596 and the middle half received between $159 and $3,102.
Show as a table
| Year | Christopher Nickele | Neurological Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $15,250 | $582 | $138–$3,006 | $163 |
| 2020 | $97 | $294 | $76–$2,174 | $114 |
| 2021 | $831 | $387 | $105–$2,432 | $132 |
| 2022 | $2,483 | $542 | $139–$2,989 | $149 |
| 2023 | $14,426 | $534 | $145–$2,697 | $160 |
| 2024 | $3,337 | $574 | $155–$3,046 | $164 |
| 2025 | $8,834 | $596 | $159–$3,102 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 3 drugsPart D claims
79
Drug cost
$674
Branded share of claims
67.1%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | Generic | 26 | $332 | |
| Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate | Brand | 37 | $235 | |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 16 | $107 |
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,779 Part D prescribers listed as Neurosurgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 106 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$145,686
Medicare patients
248
Services billed
3,418
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 63% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 43% | |
| Diabetes | 41% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 33% | |
| Depression | 31% | |
| Heart failure | 24% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 24% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, gadolinium-based magnetic resonance contrast agent, not otherwise specified (nos), per ml A9579 | Office | 26 | 605 | $696 |
| Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml Q9967 | Office | 19 | 1,900 | $196 |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Records
209 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.