Has Michael Nick received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $103,758 in general payments to Michael Nick across 359 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Nick did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Nick come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Nick

General Practice · Chicago, ILNPI 1841427457

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $101,837 of the $103,758 with a category attached, or 98.1%. Kls-martin L.p. accounts for 98.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $102,645 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $562 in 2024. Among general practice clinicians in IL 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.

$103,758in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 359 payments — averaging $289.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Kls-martin L.p.$102K
Ultradent Products Inc$835
Henry Schein, Inc.$500
Align Technology, Inc.$345
Southern Implants North America Inc$68
Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc.$35
plus $98 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$5000%
Food & beverage$5971%
Gifts$8241%
Other$101,83798%

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
Kls-martin L.p.	337	$101,877
Ultradent Products Inc	7	$835
Henry Schein, Inc.	1	$500
Align Technology, Inc.	6	$345
Southern Implants North America Inc	1	$68
Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc.	2	$35
Zimvie Inc.	1	$28
Kulzer, LLC	1	$19
Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.	1	$18
Dentsply Sirona Inc	1	$17
Elevate Oral Care	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.

LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, DRILL FREE,2.0 X 5 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$4,069
LEVEL ONE,BENDER, PLATE, MULTIFUNCTIONAL, 1.0-2.0 MM,16 CM,QTY:001 EA$3,786
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, DRILL FREE,2.0 X 7 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$3,165
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, DRILL FREE,1.5 X 5 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$2,885
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, DRILL FREE,1.5 X 4 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$2,885
LEVEL ONE,CUTTER, PLATE, FRACTURE, RECONSTRUCTION, 2.3-2.7 MM, RIGHT,22 CM,QTY:0$2,461
LEVEL ONE,TRAY, W/O LID, FOR INSTRUMENTS,23 X 24 X 6 CM,QTY:001 EA$2,397
LEVEL ONE,CUTTER, PLATE, FRACTURE, RECONSTRUCTION, 2.3-2.7 MM, LEFT,22 CM,QTY:00$2,209
LEVEL ONE,CUTTER, PLATE, MULTIFUNCTIONAL, 1.0-2.0 MM,20 CM,QTY:001 EA$1,957
LEVEL ONE,FORCEPS, HOLDING, PLATE, UNIVERSAL, TOUCHING W/2 BALLS,16 CM,QTY:001 E$1,909
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE,2.0 X 11 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$1,804
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE,2.0 X 15 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$1,804
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE,2.0 X 13 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$1,804
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE,2.0 X 9 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$1,804
LEVEL ONE,HANDLE, SCREWDRIVER, 2.0/2.3/2.7 MM, RATCHET,QTY:001 EA$1,629
LEVEL ONE,RACK, FOR 2.0 COMBO, INSERT AND SCREW,24 X 11.5 X 3 CM,QTY:001 EA$1,386
LEVEL ONE NEURO,MESH, STANDARD, NEURO SCREW,84 X 53 MM, T=0.3 MM,CP TITANIUM,QTY$1,369
LEVEL ONE, HANDLE, SCREWDRIVER, 1.5/2.0/2.3/2.7 MM, ROTATE, ROUND, QTY: 001 EA$1,309
LEVEL ONE,HANDLE, SCREWDRIVER, 1.0/1.5/2.0 MM, ROTATE,QTY:001 EA$1,240
LEVEL ONE NEURO,MESH, SCREEN, NEURO SCREW,85 X 54 MM, T=0.2 MM,CP TITANIUM,QTY:0$1,239

How this compares

$103,758 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,816 general practice providers in Illinois.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Amoxicillin	84	$199
Azithromycin	11	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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