Nicholas Watson, MD
Family Medicine · Lexington, SCNPI 1295116606
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $17.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$218
- Baxter Healthcare$193
- Johnson & Johnson$98
- Pfizer$69
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$58
- AbbVie$45
- plus $289 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$77880%
- Other$19320%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 12 | $218 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $193 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $98 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $69 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $58 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $45 |
| Amgen | 3 | $44 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $36 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $16 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $13 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Gilead | 1 | $12 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $12 |
| GSK | 1 | $11 |
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
$971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 81 | $110,712 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 49 | $65,210 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 47 | $57,539 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 20 | $31,171 |
| EliquisApixaban | 27 | $24,561 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 15 | $19,324 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 11 | $12,142 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 11 | $8,348 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 15 | $6,738 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 294 | $5,364 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 32 | $4,143 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 17 | $3,783 |
| Gabapentin | 163 | $3,438 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 95 | $3,195 |
| Telmisartan-HydrochlorothiazidTelmisartan/Hydrochlorothiazid | 14 | $2,946 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $13 | $110,71281 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $15 | $96,38169 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $12 | $57,53947 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $69 | $24,56127 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $12 | $19,32415 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $11 | $8,34811 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $45 | $2,39734 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Lexington
- Cayce TangemanGoose Creek$8.4M
- Jeremy AckermannMoncks Corner$7.6M
- Kelly MoralesNorth Charleston$6.5M
- William ByarsGreer$4.8M
- James FranklinGreenville$3.5M
- Stephen GrubbLittle River$3.4M
- Jeffrey HarrisGreenville$3.4M
- Shannon ConradN Charleston$3.3M
- Tom ChristensenLittle River$3.1M
- Edward NewtonCharleston$3M
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.