Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

ROBERT SICKLER

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Pain Medicine

NPI
1952338279
CMS profile
179676
Location
HOUSTON, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$45,933.83

  • Reported across 195 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$292.81

10 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $292.81 10

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Nevro Corp. $114.92 4
PAINTEQ LLC $77.24 2
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. $52.28 2
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $25.37 1
SCILEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC. $23.00 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $41,288.46 83
PY2019 $2,510.13 39
PY2020 $440.59 13
PY2021 $546.90 27
PY2022 $406.40 12
PY2023 $448.54 11
PY2024 $292.81 10

Payment records · PY2024 (10)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $25.37 09/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1141743071 CMS
Nevro Corp. $32.77 05/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1130735446 CMS
Nevro Corp. $20.37 07/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1130735448 CMS
Nevro Corp. $31.78 10/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1130735450 CMS
Nevro Corp. $30.00 11/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1130735404 CMS
PAINTEQ LLC $43.60 01/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142003831 CMS
PAINTEQ LLC $33.64 05/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142003834 CMS
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. $45.52 02/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1081871340 CMS
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. $6.76 03/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1081874230 CMS
SCILEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC. $23.00 02/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1136222640 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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