Who Paid My Doc
Nicolas Saikali
Neurology Amherst, NY Medical Doctor
NPI 1821228511 CMS profile 264689
3980 Sheridan Dr Fl 6, Dent Neurologic Group, LLP, Amherst, NY 14226
General payments
$1,511,501
Research payments
$5,158
Ownership & investment interest
$388,761
Research they led as principal investigator
$152,105
Through program year 2025, Nicolas Saikali of Amherst, NY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,511,501 across 3,405 general payments and $5,158 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $152,105 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $388,761 across 7 holdings.
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 99th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
16 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $142,235 | 393 | |
| 2024 | General | $195,028 | 425 | |
| 2023 | General | $177,506 | 378 | |
| 2023 | Research | $4,921 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $234,306 | 523 | |
| 2022 | Research | $237 | 1 | |
| 2021 | General | $324,947 | 607 | |
| 2020 | General | $265,580 | 533 | |
| 2019 | General | $171,899 | 546 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $142,176 | 1 | |
| 2024 | Ownership | $92,572 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Ownership | $60,784 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Ownership | $44,336 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Ownership | $24,048 | 1 | |
| 2020 | Ownership | $16,210 | 1 | |
| 2019 | Ownership | $8,635 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Nicolas Saikali
- Neurology median
- Middle half of Neurology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Nicolas Saikali were reported at $142,235. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.
Show as a table
| Year | Nicolas Saikali | Neurology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $171,899 | $474 | $118–$2,177 | $163 |
| 2020 | $265,580 | $367 | $82–$2,309 | $114 |
| 2021 | $324,947 | $438 | $104–$2,547 | $132 |
| 2022 | $234,306 | $442 | $103–$2,388 | $149 |
| 2023 | $177,506 | $464 | $119–$2,312 | $160 |
| 2024 | $195,028 | $468 | $119–$2,323 | $164 |
| 2025 | $142,235 | $457 | $118–$2,344 | $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 · 13 drugsPart D claims
316
Drug cost
$81,787
Branded share of claims
36.7%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate | Brand | 29 | $29,351 | |
| Ubrelvy Ubrogepant | Brand | 25 | $27,968 | |
| Emgality Pen Galcanezumab-Gnlm | Brand | 23 | $19,943 | |
| Sumatriptan Succinate | Generic | 42 | $1,229 | |
| Pregabalin | Generic | 15 | $1,053 | |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | Generic | 36 | $585 | |
| Rizatriptan Rizatriptan Benzoate | Brand | 28 | $568 | |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | Generic | 38 | $403 | |
| Topiramate | Generic | 25 | $254 | |
| Divalproex Sodium Er Divalproex Sodium | Brand | 11 | $173 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 13 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 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 43 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$433,666
Medicare patients
126
Services billed
21,072
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 70% | |
| Arthritis | 56% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 30% | |
| Depression | 29% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 28% | |
| Diabetes | 24% | |
| COPD | 20% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 15% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, immune globulin, (gamunex-c/gammaked), non-lyophilized (e.g., liquid), 500 mg J1561 | Office | 11 | 1,770 | $68,470 |
| Injection, onabotulinumtoxina, 1 unit J0585 | Office | 16 | 8,355 | $38,567 |
| Infusion, normal saline solution, 250 cc J7050 | Office | 19 | 35 | $18 |
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 43 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QULIPTA |
|
$58,396 | — | — |
| BOTOX |
|
$34,205 | — | 8,355 |
| VYEPTI |
|
$30,540 | — | — |
| UBRELVY |
|
$28,899 | 25 | — |
| AJOVY |
|
$8,426 | — | — |
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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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.