Nikki Williams
Physician Assistant · Temple, TXNPI 1720041072
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 100 payments — averaging $55.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Abbott$720
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$268
- Johnson & Johnson$184
- Pylant Medical$157
- plus $665 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$71913%
- Food & beverage$4,72985%
- Education$1372%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 46 | $1,918 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 16 | $1,673 |
| Abbott | 6 | $720 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $268 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $184 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $157 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 3 | $143 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $109 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $94 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $82 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $32 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $30 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Biostable Science & Engineering | 1 | $29 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Impella$803
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$660
- HemoSphere$140
- VISTASEAL$137
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$131
How this compares
$5,585 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Other physician assistant in Temple
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Anthony DerenciusSan Antonio$507K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.