Jake Nicholson, DO
Vascular Surgery · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1467013698
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 144 payments — averaging $52.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Endologix LLC$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Stryker$404
- Baxter Healthcare$384
- Penumbra, Inc.$211
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$80911%
- Food & beverage$6,14382%
- Education$5718%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 52 | $1,868 |
| Endologix LLC | 22 | $1,844 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $1,155 |
| Stryker | 5 | $404 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 12 | $384 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $211 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $210 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $203 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $184 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $181 |
| Abbott | 5 | $158 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $78 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $76 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $63 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $63 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $55 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $35 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $18 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $5 |
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.
- ENDOCROSS Device$1,198
- Torus Stent Graft System$1,198
- ENDURANT IIS$554
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$397
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$306
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$251
- Indigo System$180
- LIMFLOW SYSTEM$173
- Ranger$169
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$152
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$148
- ARTIX MT$147
- PREVELEAK$144
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$141
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$141
- Peripheral Orbital Atherectomy System$139
- Endurant$122
How this compares
$7,523 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 183 vascular surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 20 | $294 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 20 | $151 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Grand Rapids
- Vikram KashyapGrand Rapids$421K
- Eanas YassaGrand Rapids$185K
- Robert CuffGrand Rapids$62K
- M Ashraf MansourGrand Rapids$60K
- Jurgen RunschkeGrand Rapids$37K
- Christopher ChambersGrand Rapids$16K
- Andrew KimballGrand Rapids$8K
- Nicolas MouawadWest Branch$2.6M
- Enrique Criado PallaresMidland$800K
- Andrea ObiAnn Arbor$404K
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.