Has Nicholas Sich, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,282 in general payments to Nicholas Sich, MD across 41 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 Nicholas Sich, MD 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 Nicholas Sich, MD 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.

Nicholas Sich, MD

Surgical Oncology · Tacoma, WANPI 1538570338

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (54.2%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 42.8% of the total.

$6,282in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $153.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$3K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Johnson & Johnson$869
Eisai Inc.$125
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$115
Boston Scientific$86
plus $80 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,40454%
Food & beverage$1,87830%
Education$1,00016%

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	10	$2,691
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	9	$2,315
Johnson & Johnson	17	$869
Eisai Inc.	1	$125
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$115
Boston Scientific	1	$86
Medtronic	2	$80

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.

How this compares

$6,282 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 31 surgical oncology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$149,323

Medicare patients

137

Services billed

354

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
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase	16	$13,179
Hydromorphone Hcl	15	$66

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Evan OngSeattle$18K
Benjamin AndersonSeattle$15K
Kevin LabadieSeattle$11K
Max SeatonSpokane Valley$9K
Jeremy SharibSeattle$9K
Harveshp MogalSeattle$8K
Meghan FlanaganSeattle$7K

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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.

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