RxDoctor Payments Data

Catherine Nelson, PA

Physician Assistant · Hickory, NCNPI 1235622515

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,336in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 227 payments — averaging $19.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$792
  • Amgen$379
  • Novo Nordisk$323
  • GSK$310
  • Bayer$261
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$257
  • plus $2K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1754%
  • Food & beverage$4,12995%
  • Education$321%

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

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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.

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

$4,336 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$56,993
Medicare patients
170
Services billed
929

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
OzempicSemaglutide67$108,794
EliquisApixaban95$73,647
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate50$48,724
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab68$46,586
TrulicityDulaglutide33$38,947
ProliaDenosumab16$28,091
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter23$27,315
JardianceEmpagliflozin29$27,138
LinzessLinaclotide17$26,457
Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec28$22,659
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan15$19,466
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl28$16,685
MyrbetriqMirabegron15$15,660
VraylarCariprazine Hcl11$15,519
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate37$13,575

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Novo NordiskOzempic$323$108,79467 claims
PfizerEliquis$253$73,64795 claims
MerckJanuvia$30$48,72450 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar, Synthroid$792$44,39473 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$173$38,94733 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$310$33,39234 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort, Farxiga, Brilinta$143$30,66760 claims
AmgenProlia$379$28,09116 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$32$27,13829 claims
NovartisEntresto$17$19,46615 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$34$15,66015 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$17$11,70712 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.

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