Nicole Whatley, MD
Surgery · Beckley, WVNPI 1073956553
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $6,512 of the $10,229 with a category attached, or 63.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,771 and has fallen 72.6% since, to $1,853 in 2025.
Across 46 payments — averaging $222.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Smith+Nephew$166
- Davol Inc.$129
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$28
- Organogenesis Inc.$23
- Novo Nordisk$22
- plus $27 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,66326%
- Food & beverage$1,05410%
- Education$6,51264%
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 | 37 | $9,833 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $166 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $22 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $6 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$6,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,559
- GRAFIX PL$131
- Oasis$131
- Phasix Mesh$129
How this compares
$10,229 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 162 surgery providers in West Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $199 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $137 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Beckley
- Brian WhyteBeckley$56K
- Sarah HayekBeckley$44K
- David StuartBeckley$13K
- Sarang KashyapBeckley$12K
- Oluyemisi SangodeyiBeckley$9K
- Justin HavensBeckley$4K
- Courtney PettifordBeckley$3K
- Scott KillmerBeckley$3K
- Darren NeaseCharleston$107K
- Farzad AmiriHuntington$66K
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.