Amanda Alston
Medical · Concord, NCNPI 1225592066
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 100 payments — averaging $24.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$347
- AbbVie$326
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$309
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$268
- Tris Pharma Inc$247
- Alkermes, Inc.$164
- plus $767 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,427100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $347 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 26 | $326 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 7 | $309 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 13 | $268 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 11 | $247 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 4 | $164 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $158 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 8 | $148 |
| Corium, LLC | 5 | $91 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 3 | $51 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
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.
How this compares
$2,427 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 878 medical providers in North Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 12 | $3,897 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $371 |
| Fluvoxamine Maleate | 13 | $193 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 17 | $78 |
| Clonazepam | 15 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other medical in Concord
- Grace McLaurinHickory$553K
- Joel ThompsonCharlotte$269K
- Virginia JethroCary$213K
- Payal Soni-PatelAsheville$76K
- William JarrettElkin$59K
- Amanda ZimmermanWinston Salem$48K
- David TaylorMorehead City$40K
- Katherine CardSalisbury$39K
- John RobbinsWinston Salem$26K
- Ashley TipperStatesville$23K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.