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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,362 in general payments to Nicholas Wasson, MD across 20 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 Wasson, 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 Wasson, 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 Wasson, MD

Pediatric Anesthesiology · San Diego, CANPI 1538397997

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.5%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 56.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,376 and has fallen 66.1% since, to $467 in 2025. Among pediatric anesthesiology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$3,362in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $168.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$2K
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$553
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc$251
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$244
Acacia Pharma Inc$149
BD$120
plus $147 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,89856%
Speaking & faculty fees$251%
Food & beverage$1,43943%

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
Medtronic	4	$1,898
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	6	$553
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc	2	$251
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$244
Acacia Pharma Inc	1	$149
BD	2	$120
Chiesi USA, Inc.	2	$114
Merck	1	$34

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

$3,362 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 120 pediatric anesthesiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$6,710

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

Other pediatric anesthesiology in San Diego

Ian YuanSan Diego$30K
Josh GordonSan Diego$4K
Samantha BrackettSan Diego$531
Gloria HwangSan Diego$459
Edgar CanadaSan Diego$409
Sandra SawSan Diego$401
Alvin FaiermanSan Diego$284
David FrankvilleSan Diego$233
Hnin HtunSan Diego$228
Andrew ZimmermanSan Diego$154

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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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