Gavin Nixon, DO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Seattle, WANPI 1881191559
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.8%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 50.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,340 and has fallen 83.9% since, to $538 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in WA 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 102 payments — averaging $76.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
- Abbott$923
- Boston Scientific$281
- AbbVie$262
- Nevro Corp.$227
- plus $692 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,67047%
- Food & beverage$4,02652%
- Education$801%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 49 | $3,890 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 7 | $1,500 |
| Abbott | 5 | $923 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $281 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $262 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $227 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $133 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $106 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $101 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $68 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $51 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 1 | $13 |
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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$2,118
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,289
- PROCLAIM$856
- SYNCHROMEDII$382
- Senza$209
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$142
- BOTOX$107
How this compares
$7,775 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 260 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Washington.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alprazolam | 16 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Seattle
- Nassim RadSeattle$231K
- Martin ChildersSeattle$170K
- Angeli MayadevSeattle$51K
- Aaron ButlerSeattle$4K
- Alexander LloydSeattle$3K
- Christopher IdeenSeattle$2K
- Christopher BurtonSeattle$2K
- Alfred GellhornSeattle$2K
- Kirsten GageSeattle$2K
- Jeffrey HeckmanSeattle$2K
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.