Nils P Nickel, MD

1 location · Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso · 306 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: University Medical Center of El Paso. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A144404 · Delinquent

Licence status: Delinquent · since 2016 · expires 2022-01-31 · Medical Academy of Hannover.

License renewal fee has not been paid. No practice is permitted.

No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.

1 licence

• Texas S9043Physician License · since 2020 · expires 2027-02-28
  ActiveNo board action on this licenceCheck it with the state

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1 hospital

These rate the hospital, not this clinician. Most measures at most hospitals are no different from the national rate.

• University Medical Center of El PasoEl Paso, TXAcute Care Hospital · Physician · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of El Paso County Hospital DistrictPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 71% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 1.58 (0.78 to 2.39) · 2,319 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.441, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.142, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$32,897

Medicare paid this office $32,897 for 106 people.

This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.

Who their Medicare patients are

106 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Under 65 14% · 85 and older 21% · Women 57% · Also on Medicaid 42% · Health risk score 2.52. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical pulmonary disease clinician is at 2.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 54% · Heart failure 45% · Chronic kidney disease 40% · COPD 39% · Atrial fibrillation 35% · Depression 28% · Dementia 25% · Coronary heart disease 24% · Stroke 18% · Cancer 12%.

The office billed $111,251, Medicare allowed $41,573 and paid $32,897; for 291 services of 22 kinds.

Original Medicare patients only. A risk score of 1.0 is the average Medicare patient; higher means sicker. Any count under 11 is hidden.

Year by year

Original Medicare only. A service billed for fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden, so the lines can add up to less than the year's total.

$22,760 in 2024

Medicaid paid $22,760 for 150 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 17 people in a month for one service.

Medicaid and CHIP claims where this clinician did the service, fee-for-service and managed care together. Any month with fewer than 11 patients is hidden, so small Medicaid practices undercount.

$2,196,258

Pharmacies billed $2,196,258 in 2024.

This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 321) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical pulmonary disease clinician is at 0%.

111 generic and 210 brand-name prescriptions · $2,196,258 in drug cost.

Part D prescriptions only. The opioid rate is opioid prescriptions as a share of all this clinician's Part D prescriptions; surgeons and pain specialists run higher than others, so it is shown against the same specialty.

Year by year

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

$236 in 2025

Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

NPI

1528488731

Licence

CA A144404, TX S9043California A144404: Delinquent · expires 2022-01-31Texas S9043: Active

Group

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso

Gender

Male