Claire Faust Nichols
Physician Assistant · Reno, NVNPI 1386293272
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 100 payments — averaging $18.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$521
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$334
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$200
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$161
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$137
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$136
- plus $402 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,891100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 26 | $521 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 22 | $334 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 13 | $200 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 9 | $161 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $137 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $136 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 5 | $82 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $77 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Luye Pharma (USA) Ltd. | 1 | $17 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,891 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 881 physician assistant providers in Nevada.
Other physician assistant in Reno
- John LarsenReno$49K
- Laura BiehleReno$36K
- Benjamin ProhaskaReno$31K
- Rebecca SparksReno$16K
- Daniel CollReno$12K
- Cameron WheelerReno$11K
- Julia WronaReno$10K
- Amber FrancoReno$9K
- Paul JohnsReno$8K
- Shannon WeaverReno$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.