Physician Assistant Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Nicholas Sluss

Physician Assistant Norton, VA Physician Assistant

NPI 1093924201 CMS profile 10519718

482 Hawthorne Dr Ne, Norton, VA 24273

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General payments

$6,059

396 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Nicholas Sluss of Norton, VA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,059 across 396 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 93rd percentile of Physician Assistant profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,157 71
2024 General $2,252 150
2023 General $1,430 96
2022 General $767 51
2021 General $453 28

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Nicholas Sluss
  • Physician Assistant median
  • Middle half of Physician Assistant
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Nicholas Sluss were reported at $1,157. Among 68,903 Physician Assistant profiles paid that year, the median was $184 and the middle half received between $57 and $620.

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Year Nicholas Sluss Physician Assistant median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $34 $17–$122 $163
2020 $0 $33 $16–$78 $114
2021 $453 $132 $37–$438 $132
2022 $767 $155 $48–$522 $149
2023 $1,430 $167 $52–$557 $160
2024 $2,252 $178 $55–$600 $164
2025 $1,157 $184 $57–$620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Novo Nordisk Inc $1,112 86 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $980 73 payments
  3. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $492 28 payments
  4. Pfizer Inc. $468 34 payments
  5. Lilly USA, LLC $401 26 payments
  6. Abbott Laboratories $326 19 payments
  7. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $264 18 payments
  8. ITI, Inc. $252 11 payments
  9. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $197 11 payments
  10. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $185 12 payments
  11. Other $1,382 78 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,059 396 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Ozempic $561 52 payments
  2. RYBELSUS $551 51 payments
  3. VRAYLAR $475 35 payments
  4. Wegovy $419 28 payments
  5. NURTEC ODT $378 28 payments
  6. QULIPTA $294 20 payments
  7. ZAVZPRET $275 19 payments
  8. UBRELVY $274 21 payments
  9. MOUNJARO $266 17 payments
  10. XIFAXAN $264 18 payments
  11. Other $3,964 245 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 · 109 drugs

Part D claims

4,949

Median for Physician Assistant: 241

Drug cost

$288,597

Median for Physician Assistant: $4,110

Branded share of claims

23.8%

Median for Physician Assistant: 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
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 39 $37,949
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 33 $34,406
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 46 $33,938
Rybelsus Semaglutide Brand 23 $27,155
Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter Brand 26 $16,745
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 13 $13,166
Tresiba Flextouch U-100 Insulin Degludec Brand 13 $12,700
Trulicity Dulaglutide Brand 11 $11,713
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 11 $11,617
Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl Brand 24 $11,323

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 109 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 114,276 Part D prescribers listed as Physician Assistant; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 52 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$33,479

Of which drugs: $799

Medicare patients

156

Average age 71

Services billed

1,040

81 women, 75 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 52%
Diabetes 40%
Depression 32%
Ischemic heart disease 29%
Chronic kidney disease 28%
COPD 25%
Atrial fibrillation 18%
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, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg J1885 Office 11 52 $26
Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg J0696 Office 17 68 $20
Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 Office 14 150 $10

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

First 5 of 34 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
Wegovy
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $206
$206 — —
VRAYLAR
  • AbbVie, Inc. $174
$174 — —
XIFAXAN
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $138
$138 — —
RYBELSUS
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $130
$130 23 —
Ozempic
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $130
$130 39 —

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.

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Records

396 reported

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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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