Nikki Welk, PA
Physician Assistant · Fargo, NDNPI 1427310614
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,565 of the $3,981 with a category attached, or 89.6%. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among physician assistant clinicians in ND with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 174 payments — averaging $22.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$814
- Lilly USA, LLC$585
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$492
- Johnson & Johnson$430
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$222
- AbbVie$221
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,56590%
- Education$41610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 12 | $814 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 33 | $585 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 17 | $492 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $430 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 12 | $222 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 14 | $221 |
| Sanofi | 9 | $210 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 7 | $146 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 8 | $142 |
| Novartis | 8 | $116 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 6 | $113 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $81 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $72 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $69 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $59 |
| Amgen | 3 | $49 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $38 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
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.
- DAXXIFY$102
How this compares
$3,981 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 355 physician assistant providers in North Dakota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OpzeluraRuxolitinib Phosphate | 13 | $25,233 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 78 | $2,648 |
| Ketoconazole | 95 | $2,200 |
| Metronidazole | 21 | $1,075 |
| Tacrolimus | 13 | $941 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 21 | $512 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 61 | $385 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 23 | $289 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 12 | $283 |
| Mometasone Furoate | 12 | $276 |
| Hydrocortisone | 51 | $210 |
| Mupirocin | 22 | $132 |
| Prednisone | 19 | $118 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Incyte CorporationOpzelura | $69 | $25,23313 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 95th percentile of 355 physician assistant providers in North Dakota.
Other physician assistant in Fargo
- Cristy BrosowskeFargo$8K
- Matthew HockertFargo$5K
- Megan BooseFargo$4K
- Shara DiersFargo$4K
- Marc BiggerstaffFargo$3K
- Stephen AldredFargo$3K
- Breanna WuoriFargo$2K
- Stephanie HinkleFargo$2K
- Alexa PrivratskyFargo$2K
- Brittany McPhersonFargo$2K
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.