Amy Baez
Physician Assistant · Wilmington, NCNPI 1245625011
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,434 of the $4,291 with a category attached, or 80.0%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,280 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $142 in 2025. Among physician assistant clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 122 payments — averaging $35.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axonics, Inc.$971
- Medtronic$816
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$714
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$528
- Myovant Sciences Inc.$162
- Bayer$147
- plus $953 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$68616%
- Food & beverage$3,43480%
- Education$1714%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axonics, Inc. | 5 | $971 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $816 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 30 | $714 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 19 | $528 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 7 | $162 |
| Bayer | 9 | $147 |
| Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 8 | $141 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $110 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $105 |
| Amgen | 5 | $103 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $71 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 4 | $57 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $48 |
| Merck | 2 | $36 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 2 | $34 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Axonics r-SNM System$842
- INTERSTIM$699
- UroLift 2 System$110
- BRACAnalysis CDx$106
How this compares
$4,291 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 16 | $393 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Wilmington
- Leighton MorganWilmington$21K
- Jo HughesGreensboro$814K
- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Benjamin EpsteinDavidson$447K
- Rebecca KrausDavidson$425K
- Brooke JonesGoldsboro$259K
- Philip ReasbeckWilson$180K
- Katherine SchultzHuntersville$164K
- Kristin CabedaCharlotte$135K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.