Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

David Nichols

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine San Angelo, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1003951245 CMS profile 875633

2018 Pulliam St, San Angelo, TX 76905

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General payments

$1,583

70 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, David Nichols of San Angelo, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,583 across 70 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 76th percentile of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine 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 $134 5
2024 General $244 8
2023 General $332 8
2022 General $204 16
2021 General $370 16
2020 General $52 3
2019 General $246 14

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • David Nichols
  • Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine median
  • Middle half of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to David Nichols were reported at $134. Among 65 Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $153 and the middle half received between $68 and $340.

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Year David Nichols Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $246 $162 $85–$376 $163
2020 $52 $111 $46–$307 $114
2021 $370 $154 $50–$306 $132
2022 $204 $122 $40–$378 $149
2023 $332 $145 $52–$410 $160
2024 $244 $146 $80–$316 $164
2025 $134 $153 $68–$340 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $532 31 payments
  2. Solventum Corporation $197 4 payments
  3. AbbVie, Inc. $170 7 payments
  4. KCI USA, Inc $156 4 payments
  5. Acera Surgical, Inc. $132 1 payment
  6. Organogenesis Inc. $113 6 payments
  7. Tactile Systems Technology Inc $111 8 payments
  8. Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. $37 2 payments
  9. Urgo Medical North America, LLC $31 2 payments
  10. Integra LifeSciences Corporation $29 1 payment
  11. Other $75 4 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $1,583 70 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ACTIV.A.C. $215 4 payments
  2. DALVANCE $161 7 payments
  3. COLLAGENASE SANTYL Pharma Products $156 10 payments
  4. COLLAGENASE SANTYL Pharma Product $149 4 payments
  5. Restrata Wound Matrix $132 1 payment
  6. Iodosorb Ointment 40g USA $128 8 payments
  7. GRAFIX PL $120 10 payments
  8. REGRANEX $93 6 payments
  9. TEFLARO $87 3 payments
  10. Apligraf $84 3 payments
  11. Other $1,209 63 payments

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 · 16 drugs

Part D claims

632

Median for Emergency Medicine: 88

Drug cost

$10,570

Median for Emergency Medicine: $590

Branded share of claims

25.2%

Median for Emergency Medicine: 33.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Gentamicin Sulfate Generic 52 $2,573
Piperacillin-Tazobactam Piperacillin Sodium/Tazobactam Brand 12 $2,280
Doxycycline Hyclate Generic 155 $1,547
Nystatin Generic 86 $1,275
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 98 $807
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass Amoxicillin/Potassium Clav Brand 38 $374
Doxycycline Monohydrate Generic 30 $370
Triamcinolone Acetonide Generic 55 $355
Ampicillin Trihydrate Generic 16 $220
Cefdinir Generic 18 $195

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 16 counted.

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 40,243 Part D prescribers listed as Emergency Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 47 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$198,596

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

428

Average age 76

Services billed

3,005

210 women, 218 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Diabetes 58%
Arthritis 58%
Heart failure 56%
Ischemic heart disease 52%
Chronic kidney disease 50%
Atrial fibrillation 36%
Depression 32%

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.

Payments and prescribing

2 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
DALVANCE
  • AbbVie, Inc. $37
$37 — —
TEFLARO
  • AbbVie, Inc. $12
$12 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

70 reported

Every 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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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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