Nicholas Goucher, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Ogden, UTNPI 1528015542
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (41.4%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Trimed, Inc. accounts for 97.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $15,045 and has fallen 81.3% since, to $2,816 in 2025.
Across 38 payments — averaging $762.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$28K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$239
- Henry Schein, Inc.$175
- Stryker$131
- Nextremity Solutions Inc.$54
- Zimmer Biomet$54
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,00041%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,00017%
- Travel & lodging$8,99031%
- Food & beverage$2,99210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 30 | $28,329 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $239 |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | 1 | $175 |
| Stryker | 1 | $131 |
| Nextremity Solutions Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $54 |
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.
- Tools - AFS$10,268
- Tools - FPS$2,488
- INFINITY$131
- Tools - WFS$125
How this compares
$28,982 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Ogden
- Damian IllingOgden$25K
- Noah QuinlanOgden$23K
- Hugh WestMurray$14.2M
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Thomas CaltonWashington Terrace$3.5M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$2.9M
- Joshua HickmanBountiful$2.7M
- Robert TashjianSalt Lake City$2.6M
- Jeffrey JacksonSalt Lake City$2.3M
- Peter StevensSlc$2.1M
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.