Debra Towery
Family · Asheville, NCNPI 1184026130
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 104 payments — averaging $17.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$229
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$226
- AbbVie$172
- AstraZeneca$166
- Amgen$115
- Bausch Health US, LLC$110
- plus $813 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,832100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $229 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $226 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $172 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $166 |
| Amgen | 8 | $115 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $110 |
| GSK | 6 | $96 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $82 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| Abbott | 3 | $63 |
| Novartis | 4 | $59 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $57 |
| Merck | 4 | $56 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $44 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $37 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| Eisai Inc. | 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.
- RYBELSUS$125
- NURTEC ODT$122
How this compares
$1,832 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,522 family providers in North Carolina.
Other family in Asheville
- Leslie ByrneFayetteville$482K
- Michele CerraRaleigh$332K
- Anne LakeArchdale$306K
- Carrie PettitRaleigh$298K
- Nicole RothmanDurham$268K
- Meredith LeaYanceyville$253K
- Jennifer GibbsRaleigh$216K
- Juanita PerkinsDurham$213K
- Teresa DossWilmington$137K
- Debra ScottCharlotte$129K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.