Nurse Practitioner Program year 2025 Reported 2023–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Finnbar Higgins

Pain Medicine Chicago, IL Nurse Practitioner

NPI 1467153544 CMS profile 11475266

3405 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608

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General payments

$1,035

13 records reported · program years 2023–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2023–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Finnbar Higgins of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,035 across 13 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 35th percentile of Pain Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

3 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $153 2
2024 General $545 6
2023 General $336 5

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Finnbar Higgins
  • Pain Medicine median
  • Middle half of Pain Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Finnbar Higgins were reported at $153. Among 757 Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $470 and the middle half received between $146 and $1,462.

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Year Finnbar Higgins Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $506 $144–$1,566 $163
2020 $0 $315 $96–$934 $114
2021 $0 $452 $134–$1,237 $132
2022 $0 $475 $124–$1,407 $149
2023 $336 $480 $136–$1,384 $160
2024 $545 $521 $164–$1,511 $164
2025 $153 $470 $146–$1,462 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2023–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $651 8 payments
  2. Averitas Pharma Inc. $124 1 payment
  3. Axonics Modulation Technologies, Inc. $117 1 payment
  4. Medtronic, Inc. $97 1 payment
  5. Avanos Medical $25 1 payment
  6. Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc. $21 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2023–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $1,035 13 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2023–2025
  1. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $338 3 payments
  2. PROCLAIM Structural Heart $140 1 payment
  3. Qutenza $124 1 payment
  4. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $121 1 payment
  5. Axonics $117 1 payment
  6. INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM $97 1 payment
  7. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $29 1 payment
  8. GENVISC 850 SODIUM HYALURONATE $25 1 payment
  9. EVERSENSE 365 SENSOR KIT (RETAIL) $21 1 payment
  10. PROCLAIM Structural Heart $13 1 payment
  11. Other $10 1 payment

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 · 12 drugs

Part D claims

508

Median for Nurse Practitioner: 389

Drug cost

$6,074

Median for Nurse Practitioner: $21,885

Branded share of claims

32.9%

Median for Nurse Practitioner: 19.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 167 $3,542
Tramadol Hcl Generic 47 $541
Pregabalin Generic 42 $440
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 51 $415
Gabapentin Generic 38 $249
Naproxen Generic 33 $224
Meloxicam Generic 53 $169
Ibuprofen Generic 22 $150
Methocarbamol Generic 14 $147
Zolpidem Tartrate Generic 16 $78

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 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 229,976 Part D prescribers listed as Nurse Practitioner; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 11 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$18,057

Of which drugs: $3,782

Medicare patients

57

Average age 68

Services billed

542

38 women, 19 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%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 46%
Depression 32%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
COPD 25%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 15 84 $61

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

1 product · 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
Qutenza
  • Averitas Pharma Inc. $124
$124 — —

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

13 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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