Susannah Nicholson, MD
Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1679758718
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 2 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Teleflex LLC accounts for 94.6% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $2,700.
Across 2 payments — averaging $64.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teleflex LLC$122
- Intuitive Surgical$7
Across 9 payments — averaging $17,826 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.
- KCI USA, Inc.$107K
- Haemonetics Corporation$31K
- Neural Analytics, Inc.$23K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$129100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $7 |
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.
- QuikClot$122
How this compares
$129 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
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.
Other surgery in San Antonio
- Richard PetersonSan Antonio$323K
- Joseph KaramSan Antonio$293K
- John PilcherSan Antonio$214K
- John MeterskySan Antonio$158K
- Kent van SickleSan Antonio$143K
- Richard EnglehardtSan Antonio$107K
- Guillermo Portillo RamilaSan Antonio$102K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
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.