Nicholas Bahl, MD
Surgery · Wasilla, AKNPI 1083149777
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (55.8%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 32.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,457 and has fallen 50.8% since, to $3,176 in 2025.
Across 107 payments — averaging $150.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$901
- AbbVie$445
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,98556%
- Food & beverage$3,12619%
- Education$4,00025%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 11 | $5,176 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 19 | $4,930 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 8 | $1,830 |
| Davol Inc. | 8 | $1,068 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $901 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $445 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $330 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $226 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $212 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $178 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $127 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $123 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $96 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $81 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Novartis | 1 | $31 |
| Amgen | 1 | $29 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- Enseal$2,033
- Harmonic$1,653
- OviTex 2S$1,580
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,115
- MATRIXORTHOGNATHIC$986
- Phasix Mesh$949
- AdvantageRib$761
- STRATTICE$325
- ProGrip$226
- STRATAFIX$135
- ETHICON$135
- ClearSight System$127
- LOKELMA$124
- EXPAREL$124
How this compares
$16,111 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 68 surgery providers in Alaska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 14 | $262 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Wasilla
- David MorrowWasilla$12K
- Heather ZeznockWasilla$8K
- Iuliana BobangaWasilla$7K
- Garth LecheminantWasilla$1K
- Joseph LlewellynWasilla$49
- John MuffolettoAnchorage$55K
- Justin ClarkJber$24K
- David WrigleyAnchorage$20K
- Harrison BurmanKetchikan$18K
- Gregory HoughEagle River$18K
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.