Carrie Ziemer, PA
Physician Assistant · Norfolk, VANPI 1851489504
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 46 payments — averaging $54.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$984
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$827
- Abbott$206
- Boston Scientific$182
- Medtronic$157
- Welch Allyn$104
- plus $45 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$82733%
- Food & beverage$1,57563%
- Other$1044%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 26 | $984 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $827 |
| Abbott | 2 | $206 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $182 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $157 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $104 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $29 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $17 |
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
$2,505 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,376 physician assistant providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 423 | $563,906 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 88 | $119,921 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 23 | $46,748 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 18 | $20,458 |
| Dofetilide | 46 | $12,263 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 178 | $9,345 |
| Mexiletine Hcl | 35 | $3,190 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 105 | $2,765 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 144 | $2,225 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 53 | $1,471 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 130 | $684 |
| Carvedilol | 55 | $570 |
| Spironolactone | 29 | $500 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 23 | $411 |
| Furosemide | 56 | $410 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Norfolk
- Melissa AlcoxNorfolk$73K
- Hillary HartungNorfolk$62K
- Stephanie HadleyNorfolk$15K
- Danielle JohnsonNorfolk$13K
- Ericka ThompsonNorfolk$13K
- John DalessandroSalem$160K
- Jalal AlghabraFredericksburg$119K
- Jamie GiovanelliVirginia Beach$118K
- John CarterStaunton$90K
- Lindsay TomReston$71K
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.