Stephen Nicholas, MD
Sports Medicine · Nyc, NYNPI 1528053550
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $428,002 of the $585,504 with a category attached, or 73.1%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. at 49.1% of the total. Among sports medicine clinicians in NY 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 268 payments — averaging $2184.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$288K
- Arthrex$249K
- Suvon Surgical LLC$44K
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$951
- plus $2K from 10 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $4724.55 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Arthrex$52K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$130,27122%
- Consulting fees$9,9102%
- Speaking & faculty fees$428,00273%
- Travel & lodging$5,1461%
- Food & beverage$8,5741%
- Education$3,6001%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 68 | $287,712 |
| Arthrex | 127 | $248,553 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 16 | $43,936 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 7 | $1,188 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,104 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $951 |
| Lifenet Health | 4 | $454 |
| DJO, LLC | 5 | $448 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $376 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $236 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $214 |
| Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc. | 1 | $209 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen | 1 | $19 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals 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.
- ARTHREX$379,608
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY & FRACTURE REVERS$43,291
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS KNEE ARTHROPLASTY TOTAL KNEE$29,807
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS KNEE ARTHROPLASTY PATELLO FEMORAL$29,471
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS KNEE ARTHROPLASTY TOTAL KNEE$29,471
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS KNEE & HIP ARTHROPLASTY TOTAL KNEE$18,220
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS KNEE ARTHROPLASTY UNI KNEE$14,693
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS KNEE & HIP ARTHROPLASTY PATELLO FEMORAL$13,820
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS KNEE & HIP ARTHROPLASTY TOTAL KNEE$13,820
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY TOTAL KNEE$10,913
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY REVISION$10,913
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY REVISION$10,913
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY TOTAL KNEE$10,913
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS REVERS TOTAL SHOULDER UNIVERSAL GLENOID$10,913
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS KNEE & HIP ARTHROPLASTY UNI KNEE$6,541
- CellerateRx$1,188
- CMF$523
- ROSA-Knee$463
- MAKO$252
- ICONIX$229
How this compares
$585,504 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 403 sports medicine providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 414 | $1,723 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 48 | $306 |
| Cephalexin | 24 | $248 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 61 | $226 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $87 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 11 | $44 |
| Amoxicillin | 26 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Nyc
- Steven LeeNyc$3.3M
- James PaciWoodbury$2.1M
- Gregory DifeliceNew York$1.8M
- Ilya VoloshinRochester$786K
- Theodore BlaineNew York$765K
- Robert MeislinNew York$720K
- Danyal NawabiNew York$592K
- Riley WilliamsNew York$512K
- Bryan KellyNew York$409K
- Samuel TaylorNew York$255K
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.