Crystal Choy
Physician Assistant · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1144982307
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,174 of the $2,538 with a category attached, or 85.6%. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,627, more than ten times the $126 reported in 2023. Among physician assistant clinicians in NM with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 125 payments — averaging $20.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$551
- Johnson & Johnson$308
- Incyte Corporation$300
- UCB, Inc.$262
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$257
- Novartis$234
- plus $625 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,17486%
- Education$36514%
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 | 37 | $551 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $308 |
| Incyte Corporation | 17 | $300 |
| UCB, Inc. | 14 | $262 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 9 | $257 |
| Novartis | 12 | $234 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $233 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 4 | $62 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $53 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Organon | 3 | $30 |
| Amgen | 1 | $27 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $21 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$2,538 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 635 physician assistant providers in New Mexico.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fluorouracil | 90 | $5,091 |
| Tacrolimus | 39 | $5,017 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 81 | $2,912 |
| Calcipotriene | 14 | $1,977 |
| Ketoconazole | 86 | $1,802 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 99 | $1,635 |
| Fluocinolone Acetonide | 38 | $1,357 |
| Metronidazole | 27 | $1,035 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 21 | $943 |
| Hydrocortisone | 38 | $938 |
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 47 | $883 |
| Mupirocin | 34 | $396 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $320 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 12 | $246 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Albuquerque
- Leigh HigginsAlbuquerque$10K
- Maria AbeytaAlbuquerque$8K
- Kari LavigneAlbuquerque$8K
- Elizabeth BelitzAlbuquerque$8K
- Desiree BarelaAlbuquerque$6K
- Stephanie BeyesAlbuquerque$5K
- Stephanie GonzalesAlbuquerque$5K
- Miquela WiegelAlbuquerque$5K
- Gabriela PobarAlbuquerque$5K
- Jacklyn ChavezAlbuquerque$5K
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.