Nicholas Heath, DPM
Podiatrist · Tacoma, WANPI 1144254640
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,154 of the $2,766 with a category attached, or 77.9%. Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. accounts for 95.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,645 and has fallen 97.7% since, to $60 in 2024.
Across 8 payments — averaging $345.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$3K
- Smith+Nephew$41
- Stryker$28
- Bsn Medical Inc$20
- Medtronic$19
- Merck$14
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$61222%
- Food & beverage$2,15478%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $2,645 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $41 |
| Stryker | 1 | $28 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$2,766 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 134 podiatrist providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium | 22 | $793 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 18 | $429 |
| Cephalexin | 20 | $222 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Tacoma
- Todd ChappellTacoma$9K
- Rebecca Omana-DanielsTacoma$3K
- Eckart PapeTacoma$3K
- Jason HussTacoma$2K
- Heather HentoTacoma$2K
- Byron HutchinsonBurien$903K
- Michael DujelaCentralia$99K
- Huy DangCentralia$63K
- Michael FrazierFederal Way$27K
- Ryan StoneBurien$15K
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.