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

Kent Van Sickle

Surgery San Antonio, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1629085998 CMS profile 301188

7703 Floyd Curl Dr, Mc 7977, San Antonio, TX 78229

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General payments

$142,562

325 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, Kent Van Sickle of San Antonio, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $142,562 across 325 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 98th percentile of 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 $23,588 51
2024 General $9,773 52
2023 General $11,731 35
2022 General $25,834 59
2021 General $14,196 25
2020 General $29,764 41
2019 General $27,677 62

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Kent Van Sickle
  • Surgery median
  • Middle half of Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Kent Van Sickle were reported at $23,588. Among 17,702 Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $280 and the middle half received between $91 and $1,259.

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Year Kent Van Sickle Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $27,677 $253 $82–$1,521 $163
2020 $29,764 $131 $40–$706 $114
2021 $14,196 $168 $50–$904 $132
2022 $25,834 $224 $76–$1,218 $149
2023 $11,731 $253 $82–$1,255 $160
2024 $9,773 $279 $90–$1,381 $164
2025 $23,588 $280 $91–$1,259 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $86,448 158 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $44,482 85 payments
  3. Covidien LP $7,349 12 payments
  4. Davol Inc. $2,629 30 payments
  5. TELA Bio, Inc. $262 8 payments
  6. Enterra Medical, Inc. $260 5 payments
  7. Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $198 2 payments
  8. CONMED Corporation $161 5 payments
  9. Boston Scientific Corporation $135 1 payment
  10. Becton, Dickinson and Company $134 1 payment
  11. Other $504 18 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Education $62,750 25 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $44,800 17 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $13,033 228 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $11,670 3 payments
  5. Travel and Lodging $10,309 52 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Da Vinci Surgical System $83,448 157 payments
  2. AbsorbaTack $11,500 1 payment
  3. DAVINCI XI $3,000 1 payment
  4. ProGrip Hernia Repair $1,795 13 payments
  5. Phasix Mesh Surgery $1,739 19 payments
  6. ProGrip Hernia Repair $546 4 payments
  7. PULSESELECT $500 1 payment
  8. Signia $487 7 payments
  9. Phasix Mesh BD Interventional Surgery $275 3 payments
  10. Exparel $198 2 payments
  11. Other $2,433 59 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 48 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$40,982

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

78

Average age 69

Services billed

155

46 women, 32 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 74%
Arthritis 53%
Depression 38%
Ischemic heart disease 36%
Diabetes 32%
Chronic kidney disease 28%
COPD 19%
Osteoporosis 19%

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
Exparel
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $198
$198 — —

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

325 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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