Willis Nichols, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,241 of the $3,076 with a category attached, or 72.9%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 63.5% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,249 and has fallen 69.1% since, to $694 in 2025.
Across 24 payments — averaging $128.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Davol Inc.$811
- Johnson & Johnson$125
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$88
- TELA Bio, Inc.$32
- Baxter Healthcare$25
- plus $42 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,24173%
- Food & beverage$83527%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,953 |
| Davol Inc. | 10 | $811 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $125 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Standard Bariatrics, 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.
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$1,911
- Phasix Mesh$566
How this compares
$3,076 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 95 | $6,094 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 87 | $2,086 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 34 | $317 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 31 | $292 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 40 | $243 |
| Gavilyte-NSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 11 | $170 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Foley
- Eric RobertsFoley$39K
- Jeffrey CaylorFoley$37K
- Patrick BosargeFoley$28K
- Kaci SimsFoley$15K
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- Terry TreadwellMontgomery$127K
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.