Benedicta Pongo
Physician Assistant · Franklin, NCNPI 1275260176
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 152 payments — averaging $17.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$503
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$323
- AstraZeneca$276
- Novo Nordisk$264
- GSK$259
- Amgen$207
- plus $861 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,693100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 24 | $503 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $323 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $276 |
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $264 |
| GSK | 12 | $259 |
| Amgen | 13 | $207 |
| AbbVie | 20 | $192 |
| Bayer | 8 | $137 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $115 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $106 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 7 | $101 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 4 | $67 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $31 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$2,693 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 15 | $10,962 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $361 |
| Omeprazole | 21 | $228 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 30 | $169 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 12 | $140 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 11 | $115 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 11 | $114 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 11 | $101 |
| Losartan Potassium | 16 | $93 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 11 | $78 |
| Lisinopril | 17 | $71 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $59 |
| Azithromycin | 15 | $49 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 15 | $45 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 24 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Franklin
- 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
- Jay ClarkeArden$133K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.