Sandra Nichols, PHD, APRN, PMHNP-BC,

NPI: 1770749202
Total Payments
$4,063
2024 Payments
$883.13
Companies
19
Transactions
173
Medicare Patients
386
Medicare Billing
$42,512

Payment Breakdown by Category

Food & Beverage$4,063 (100.0%)

Payments by Nature

Nature of Payment Amount Transactions Share
Food and Beverage $4,063 173 100.0%

Top Paying Companies

Company Total Records Latest Year
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $1,096 42 $0 (2024)
ABBVIE INC. $893.79 53 $0 (2024)
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $673.47 26 $0 (2024)
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $307.87 10 $0 (2024)
EISAI INC. $188.52 2 $0 (2022)
Corium, LLC $156.53 8 $0 (2023)
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $136.52 8 $0 (2024)
Sage Therapeutics, Inc. $106.50 1 $0 (2023)
Lundbeck LLC $99.61 5 $0 (2024)
ITI, Inc. $79.81 4 $0 (2023)

Payment History by Year

Year Amount Transactions Top Company
2024 $883.13 36 Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. ($306.86)
2023 $1,628 75 Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. ($523.13)
2022 $1,269 54 Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. ($265.89)
2021 $282.82 8 AbbVie Inc. ($282.82)

All Payment Transactions

173 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 7

Date Company Product Nature Form Amount Type
11/18/2024 ABBVIE INC. VRAYLAR (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $6.04 General
Category: NEUROSCIENCE
11/02/2024 Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. INGREZZA (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $13.85 General
Category: Neuropsychiatry
10/24/2024 ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) CAPLYTA (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $14.51 General
Category: PSYCHIATRY
10/21/2024 Novo Nordisk Inc Wegovy (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $19.30 General
Category: Obesity
10/17/2024 ABBVIE INC. VRAYLAR (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $26.29 General
Category: NEUROSCIENCE
10/15/2024 Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. REXULTI (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $18.84 General
Category: PSYCHIATRY
10/15/2024 Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. ABILIFY MAINTENA (Drug), ABILIFY ASIMTUFII Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $15.50 General
Category: PSYCHIATRY
09/23/2024 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc SPRAVATO (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $21.84 General
Category: Neuroscience
09/20/2024 ABBVIE INC. VRAYLAR (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $13.26 General
Category: NEUROSCIENCE
09/10/2024 Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. REXULTI (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $12.86 General
Category: PSYCHIATRY
08/13/2024 Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. REXULTI (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $26.93 General
Category: PSYCHIATRY
07/17/2024 ABBVIE INC. VRAYLAR (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $20.65 General
Category: NEUROSCIENCE
06/11/2024 Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. REXULTI (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $117.04 General
Category: PSYCHIATRY
06/11/2024 Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. REXULTI (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $19.66 General
Category: PSYCHIATRY
06/09/2024 ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) CAPLYTA (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $47.36 General
Category: PSYCHIATRY
06/04/2024 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc SPRAVATO (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $25.16 General
Category: Neuroscience
05/28/2024 Lundbeck LLC REXULTI (Drug) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $16.54 General
Category: PSYCHIATRY
05/13/2024 Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. ABILIFY MAINTENA (Drug), REXULTI Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $21.10 General
Category: PSYCHIATRY
05/10/2024 ABBVIE INC. VRAYLAR (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $13.82 General
Category: NEUROSCIENCE
05/01/2024 Indivior Inc. SUBLOCADE (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $15.91 General
Category: OUD
04/29/2024 ABBVIE INC. VRAYLAR (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $11.54 General
Category: NEUROSCIENCE
04/17/2024 Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. INGREZZA (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $20.79 General
Category: Neuropsychiatry
04/09/2024 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc SPRAVATO (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $20.38 General
Category: Neuroscience
03/28/2024 Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. INGREZZA (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $99.31 General
Category: Neuropsychiatry
03/18/2024 ABBVIE INC. VRAYLAR (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $16.67 General
Category: NEUROSCIENCE

Medicare Billing by Year

Year Procedures Beneficiaries Services Submitted Medicare Paid
2023 5 103 284 $38,470 $12,789
2022 4 67 153 $27,248 $7,842
2021 3 59 112 $77,707 $7,408
2020 4 157 166 $245,531 $14,473
Total Patients
386
Total Services
715
Medicare Billing
$42,512
Procedure Codes
16

All Medicare Procedures & Services

16 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization

HCPCS Description Setting Year Patients Services Charges Medicare Paid Ratio
99213 Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes Office 2023 18 80 $10,560 $3,558 33.7%
99214 Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes Office 2023 14 44 $9,000 $3,135 34.8%
99231 Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 25 minutes Facility 2023 33 86 $8,428 $2,738 32.5%
99232 Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes Facility 2023 21 35 $6,370 $1,765 27.7%
90833 Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 30 minutes Office 2023 17 39 $4,112 $1,593 38.7%
99232 Follow-up hospital inpatient care per day, typically 25 minutes Facility 2022 30 84 $15,288 $3,948 25.8%
99214 Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes Office 2022 11 24 $3,646 $1,731 47.5%
99222 Initial hospital inpatient care per day, typically 50 minutes Facility 2022 14 16 $5,472 $1,426 26.1%
99231 Follow-up hospital inpatient care per day, typically 15 minutes Facility 2022 12 29 $2,842 $736.91 25.9%
99232 Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day Facility 2021 24 77 $14,014 $3,753 26.8%
99285 Emergency department visit, problem with significant threat to life or function Facility 2021 21 21 $43,869 $2,652 6.0%
99284 Emergency department visit, problem of high severity Facility 2021 14 14 $19,824 $1,003 5.1%
99285 Emergency department visit, problem with significant threat to life or function Facility 2020 71 75 $135,838 $7,716 5.7%
99284 Emergency department visit, problem of high severity Facility 2020 53 55 $64,694 $3,937 6.1%
99291 Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes Facility 2020 13 13 $29,812 $1,908 6.4%
99283 Emergency department visit, moderately severe problem Facility 2020 20 23 $15,187 $911.54 6.0%

About Sandra Nichols, PHD, APRN, PMHNP-BC,

Sandra Nichols, PHD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, is a Psychiatric/Mental Health healthcare provider based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 08/04/2008. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1770749202.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, Sandra Nichols, PHD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, has received a total of $4,063 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $883.13 received in 2024. These payments were reported across 173 transactions from 19 companies. The most common payment nature is "Food and Beverage" ($4,063).

As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Nichols has provided services to 386 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 715 services with total Medicare billing of $42,512. Data is available for 4 years (2020–2023), covering 16 distinct procedure/service records.

Practice Information

  • Specialty Psychiatric/Mental Health
  • Other Specialties Psychiatric/Mental Health, Family
  • Location Virginia Beach, VA
  • Active Since 08/04/2008
  • Last Updated 01/16/2026
  • Taxonomy Code 363LP0808X
  • Entity Type Individual
  • NPI Number 1770749202

Products in Payments

  • VRAYLAR (Drug) $893.79
  • REXULTI (Drug) $769.94
  • SPRAVATO (Drug) $652.48
  • ABILIFY MAINTENA (Drug) $375.23
  • INGREZZA (Drug) $307.87
  • Lenvima (Drug) $188.52
  • CAPLYTA (Drug) $141.68
  • TRINTELLIX (Drug) $115.13
  • Azstarys (Drug) $107.00
  • ABILIFY ASIMTUFII (Drug) $50.32
  • AZSTARYS (Drug) $49.53
  • ARISTADA (Drug) $49.26
  • Wegovy (Drug) $33.78
  • Nuedexta (Drug) $28.33
  • Dyanavel XR (Drug) $22.57
  • ENTYVIO (Biological) $21.39
  • INVEGA SUSTENNA (Drug) $20.99
  • Austedo XR (Drug) $19.58
  • SUBLOCADE (Drug) $15.91
  • Adzenys XR-ODT (Drug) $14.05

Data Sources

Provider data from NPPES. Payment data from CMS Open Payments. Medicare data from CMS Medicare Provider Utilization. All data is public and updated periodically.

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