Colton Hickman, DO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1164954954
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $7,500 of the $9,469 with a category attached, or 79.2%. Boston Scientific accounts for 98.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $7,557 and has fallen 82.6% since, to $1,317 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in PA 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 27 payments — averaging $350.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$9K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$80
- Medtronic$49
- Stratus Medical, LLC$30
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$16
What the payments were for
- Grants$7,50079%
- Travel & lodging$7628%
- Food & beverage$1,20713%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 20 | $9,294 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $80 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $49 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$7,500
- Intracept$1,107
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$213
How this compares
$9,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 550 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 45 | $483 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Pittsburgh
- Michael MuninPittsburgh$43K
- Shelana Gibbs-McelvyPittsburgh$39K
- Alexander BehnazPittsburgh$18K
- Kentaro OnishiPittsburgh$6K
- Karl LiebePittsburgh$5K
- John LeePittsburgh$4K
- Thomas FranzPittsburgh$4K
- Jeffery RoweKing Of Prussia$1.9M
- Michael SaulinoElkins Park$425K
- Huaguang QuChalfont$356K
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.