Catherine Nelson, PA
Physician Assistant · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1902457864
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 93 payments — averaging $33.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$311
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$173
- AbbVie$172
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$131
- Bioventus LLC$125
- plus $691 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,08435%
- Food & beverage$1,91761%
- Education$1234%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 11 | $1,521 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 16 | $311 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $173 |
| AbbVie | 14 | $172 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $131 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $125 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $117 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 4 | $114 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 5 | $94 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 4 | $88 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $45 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $19 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $16 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- STRATAFIX$1,188
How this compares
$3,124 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,852 physician assistant providers in South 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 19 | $12,391 |
| Celecoxib | 134 | $1,909 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 270 | $1,104 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 378 | $813 |
| Tranexamic Acid | 50 | $716 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 92 | $627 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 65 | $507 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 57 | $482 |
| Gabapentin | 29 | $233 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 29 | $199 |
| Baclofen | 13 | $127 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 13 | $84 |
| Cefadroxil | 14 | $83 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $63 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Mt Pleasant
- Allison LesterMt Pleasant$163K
- Michelle YoungMt Pleasant$14K
- Wyvette LeoniMt Pleasant$9K
- Benjamin AddyWest Columbia$377K
- Michael OvercashCharleston$210K
- Nicole KeeterFort Mill$129K
- William YoungGreenville$117K
- Stephanie DavisAnderson$78K
- Vicki RobertsWest Columbia$77K
- Eric ShoupColumbia$74K
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.