Gregory Nicholson, MD
Sports Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1477532141
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 395 payments — averaging $17,000 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$6.5M
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$139K
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$70K
- KCI USA, Inc.$2K
- Azurmeds, Inc.$2K
- Exactech, Inc.$158
- plus $663 from 8 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 314 | $6,501,301 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 38 | $139,131 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 26 | $69,683 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $2,179 |
| Azurmeds, Inc. | 3 | $1,905 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Responsive Arthroscopy Inc | 1 | $152 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $149 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $121 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $83 |
| Vertex | 1 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$6,715,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 233 sports medicine providers in Illinois.
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.
Other sports medicine in Chicago
- Grant GarriguesChicago$3.1M
- Brian ColeChicago$3.1M
- Brian ForsytheChicago$2M
- Nikhil VermaChicago$1M
- Shane NhoChicago$668K
- Adam YankeChicago$388K
- Vehniah TjongChicago$190K
- Aravind AthivirahamChicago$138K
- Nicholas WeberChicago$110K
- Prakash JayabalanChicago$78K
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.