Candace Hickel, PA
Surgical · Anchorage, AKNPI 1497907554
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (48.7%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 49.3% of the total. Among surgical clinicians in AK 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.
Across 55 payments — averaging $219.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$6K
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$266
- Abiomed$215
- Baxter Healthcare$129
- plus $141 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,20035%
- Travel & lodging$5,88749%
- Food & beverage$1,99617%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 16 | $5,960 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $2,872 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 10 | $2,500 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $266 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $215 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $129 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $96 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
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.
- VISTASEAL$4,321
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,545
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$2,303
- SURGIFLO Hemostatic Matrix$2,200
- ETHICON$2,000
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,813
- STRATAFIX$1,339
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$732
- PREVELEAK$129
How this compares
$12,083 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 31 surgical providers in Alaska.
Medicare billing
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 12 | $126 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 12 | $103 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 12 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Anchorage
- Susan HartmannAnchorage$5K
- Cheukyin PangAnchorage$3K
- Jayme FullerAnchorage$3K
- Kristina EllisAnchorage$2K
- Michael Thruangsnga-KentAnchorage$2K
- Cynthia DunleavyAnchorage$1K
- Brenton StockwellAnchorage$1K
- Kaleigh BishopAnchorage$1K
- Benjamin KennahAnchorage$972
- Marie TaylorAnchorage$805
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.