Nicole Wellman-Donester, MD
Dermatology · Great Falls, MTNPI 1689909566
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,366 of the $3,759 with a category attached, or 89.5%. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 157 payments — averaging $23.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$748
- Johnson & Johnson$580
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$538
- Amgen$407
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$277
- Novartis$251
- plus $958 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,36690%
- Education$39310%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 42 | $748 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $580 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 22 | $538 |
| Amgen | 16 | $407 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 12 | $277 |
| Novartis | 14 | $251 |
| Incyte Corporation | 7 | $218 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 2 | $139 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $139 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $54 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $42 |
| Krystal Biotech Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $27 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $14 |
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
$3,759 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 46 dermatology providers in Montana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab | 14 | $86,557 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 92 | $4,046 |
| Fluorouracil | 55 | $3,836 |
| Metronidazole | 36 | $2,451 |
| Ketoconazole | 56 | $827 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 12 | $600 |
| Imiquimod | 31 | $525 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 75 | $490 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 18 | $457 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 21 | $344 |
| Mometasone Furoate | 14 | $242 |
| Hydrocortisone | 55 | $217 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 11 | $184 |
| Minoxidil | 39 | $111 |
| Prednisone | 18 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Great Falls
- Leslie StappGreat Falls$58K
- Hana PaladichukGreat Falls$2K
- Ali MarzooqGreat Falls$2K
- Byron BaldridgeGreat Falls$61
- Neil SwansonMissoula$148K
- Shannon FosterMissoula$11K
- Ann BrewerKalispell$8K
- Tara OetkenBozeman$7K
- Jessica SemplerMissoula$7K
- Troy DavisMissoula$6K
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.