Pamela Nickson
Pediatrics · Chicago, ILNPI 1629033048
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 71 payments — averaging $25.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$327
- Preventric Diagnostics, Inc.$321
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$266
- GSK$228
- Sobi, Inc$177
- Novo Nordisk$68
- plus $434 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,820100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 17 | $327 |
| Preventric Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $321 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 12 | $266 |
| GSK | 10 | $228 |
| Sobi, Inc | 7 | $177 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $68 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $60 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $50 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 2 | $46 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 2 | $45 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 3 | $43 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $24 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $23 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biogen | 1 | $20 |
| Amgen | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $18 |
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
$1,820 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,058 pediatrics providers in Illinois.
Other pediatrics in Chicago
- Amy PallerChicago$7M
- Mindy SimpsonChicago$1M
- Jan BergerChicago$886K
- Linda LauxChicago$688K
- Mary SchmidtChicago$646K
- Ruchi GuptaChicago$390K
- Anita Chandra PuriChicago$367K
- Anna FishbeinChicago$358K
- Larry KociolekChicago$190K
- Anthony ManciniChicago$187K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.