Has Andrew Nicholson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $34,747 in general payments to Andrew Nicholson, MD across 297 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Andrew Nicholson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Andrew Nicholson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Andrew Nicholson, MD

Diagnostic Radiology · Knoxville, TNNPI 1528293701

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Penumbra, Inc. accounts for 60.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $14,154 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $1,214 in 2025. Among diagnostic radiology clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$34,747in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 297 payments — averaging $116.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Penumbra, Inc.$21K
Saranas, Inc.$7K
Imperative Care, Inc$3K
Stryker$2K
Medtronic$875
Johnson & Johnson$321
plus $380 from 4 others

$61,225in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $987.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Penumbra, Inc.$61K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$11,70034%
Travel & lodging$4,37013%
Food & beverage$18,67754%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Penumbra, Inc.	183	$21,150
Saranas, Inc.	3	$6,963
Imperative Care, Inc	47	$2,643
Stryker	34	$2,416
Medtronic	18	$875
Johnson & Johnson	3	$321
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	3	$237
Philips North America LLC	3	$60
GSK	2	$54
Microvention, Inc.	1	$29

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$34,747 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 757 diagnostic radiology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$41,762

Medicare patients

Services billed

183

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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