Cortney Jones
Physician Assistant · Whiteville, NCNPI 1902228240
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 121 payments — averaging $19.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$795
- Novo Nordisk$369
- Amgen$199
- Bayer$120
- Lilly USA, LLC$111
- Exact Sciences$98
- plus $652 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,32399%
- Education$201%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 27 | $795 |
| Novo Nordisk | 23 | $369 |
| Amgen | 16 | $199 |
| Bayer | 7 | $120 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $111 |
| Exact Sciences | 6 | $98 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $75 |
| Abbott | 3 | $60 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $57 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $54 |
| GSK | 3 | $50 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $34 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $34 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $30 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Gilead | 1 | $16 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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
$2,343 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 181 | $175,803 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 121 | $152,415 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 89 | $78,261 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 83 | $73,971 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 60 | $71,517 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 46 | $57,050 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 48 | $53,070 |
| ForteoTeriparatide | 12 | $50,449 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 46 | $48,935 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 51 | $45,644 |
| XifaxanRifaximin | 15 | $44,783 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 44 | $40,003 |
| EliquisApixaban | 38 | $31,594 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 62 | $22,490 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 25 | $14,346 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $795 | $247,228289 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity, Forteo | $111 | $179,015118 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $369 | $152,415121 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $50 | $84,144101 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Dulera | $19 | $59,62767 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $75 | $45,64451 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan | $57 | $44,78315 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $34 | $31,59438 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $35 | $14,34625 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 80th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Other physician assistant in Whiteville
- 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.