Nicole Hicks
Physician Assistant · Saint Paul, MNNPI 1053349829
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 19 payments — averaging $129.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$298
- Zimmer Biomet$197
- Kerecis Limited$133
- Foundation Medical, LLC$123
- Organogenesis Inc.$111
- plus $312 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$75831%
- Food & beverage$1,52462%
- Education$1817%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 6 | $1,288 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $298 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $197 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $133 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 2 | $123 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $107 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $75 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $31 |
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.
- PRO$758
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$532
- INTEGRA$406
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$165
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$160
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$135
- PRIMATRIX$135
- SPS$135
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$133
- PuraPly$111
- RECELL$107
How this compares
$2,463 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,121 physician assistant providers in Minnesota.
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 | 25 | $124 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Saint Paul
- Christa HeckmanSaint Paul$15K
- Paige StreiffSaint Paul$9K
- Tegan PresleySaint Paul$7K
- Emma TurnquistSaint Paul$6K
- Heather HabermanSaint Paul$6K
- James NewtonSaint Paul$6K
- Chrystin SkogSaint Paul$4K
- Sara RobeckBloomington$274K
- Natalie IkemanEdina$170K
- Adam HetzBlaine$156K
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.