Thomas Nicholson, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · York, PANPI 1922081785
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,500 of the $9,435 with a category attached, or 79.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.6% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,448 and has fallen 76.7% since, to $1,502 in 2025.
Across 49 payments — averaging $192.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Axonics, Inc.$1K
- LSI Solutions Inc$58
- Medtronic$46
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$39
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$36
- plus $215 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4505%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4735%
- Travel & lodging$190%
- Food & beverage$97710%
- Education$7,50079%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 9 | $7,891 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 17 | $1,150 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $58 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $46 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Merck | 2 | $31 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
| GSK | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$7,500
- Axonics r-SNM System$473
- Axonics$450
- Da Vinci Surgical System$297
How this compares
$9,435 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 108 colon & rectal surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LinzessLinaclotide | 17 | $8,877 |
| CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar) | 29 | $3,690 |
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 85 | $1,748 |
| Metronidazole | 81 | $466 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 48 | $351 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 56 | $228 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 16 | $168 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 32 | $167 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 24 | $164 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 24 | $84 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 17 | $80 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 14 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in York
- Benjamin VabiYork$12K
- Sasha SlipakYork$8K
- Puja BerryYork$5K
- Bogdan ProtyniakWilkes-Barre$429K
- John MarksWynnewood$155K
- Joshua BleierPhiladelphia$86K
- Richard FortunatoPittsburgh$80K
- Najjia MahmoudPhiladelphia$63K
- James McCormickMonroeville$55K
- Juan PoggioPhiladelphia$49K
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.