Has Steven Nisco, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,360 in general payments to Steven Nisco, MD across 74 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Steven Nisco, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Steven Nisco, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Steven Nisco, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Spokane, WANPI 1093713943

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (42.6%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 75.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$9,360in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $126.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$7K
Edwards Lifesciences$1K
Medtronic$333
Baxter Healthcare$220
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$145
AstraZeneca$125
plus $424 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,98443%
Food & beverage$2,87631%
Education$2,50027%

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	34	$7,038
Edwards Lifesciences	11	$1,075
Medtronic	6	$333
Baxter Healthcare	3	$220
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	8	$145
AstraZeneca	1	$125
Amgen	1	$99
Atricure, Inc.	2	$93
Abbott	1	$61
Olympus America Inc.	2	$56
Clearflow Inc.	2	$43
Abiomed	1	$33
Zimmer Biomet	1	$27
Davol Inc.	1	$12

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

$9,360 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 105 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$123,042

Medicare patients

Services billed

200

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.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Spokane

Matthew ForresterSpokane$129K
Justin ReevesSpokane$70K
Alexi MatousekSpokane$60K
Mary SmithSpokane$32K
Mandya VishwanathSpokane$8K
Neil WorrallSpokane$5K
Bahirathan KrishnadasanTacoma$930K
John LuberTacoma$623K
Glenn BarnhartSeattle$577K
Daniel CuadradoTacoma$514K

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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.

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