Charlotte Hicks
Physician Assistant · Charlotte, NCNPI 1306813944
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 202 payments — averaging $19.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$492
- Novartis$454
- Gilead$446
- Johnson & Johnson$358
- AstraZeneca$342
- Pfizer$329
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,891100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 25 | $492 |
| Novartis | 19 | $454 |
| Gilead | 18 | $446 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19 | $358 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 19 | $342 |
| Pfizer | 23 | $329 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $281 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $160 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $152 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $148 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 7 | $141 |
| Merck | 6 | $128 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $112 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $105 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 7 | $98 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $95 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$3,891 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Other physician assistant in Charlotte
- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Kristin CabedaCharlotte$135K
- Meghan EmigCharlotte$124K
- Juleidy TurnipseedCharlotte$84K
- Erin SiceloffCharlotte$50K
- Ronald RodriguezCharlotte$31K
- Lamiaa TolbaCharlotte$29K
- Sanaya GandhiCharlotte$29K
- Jacqueline LeyrerCharlotte$24K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.