Donna Shuler, PA
Physician Assistant · Hickory, NCNPI 1932617461
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 640 payments — averaging $25.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$3K
- AbbVie$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$2K
- Sanofi$1K
- Pfizer$981
- plus $5K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3892%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,90012%
- Travel & lodging$450%
- Food & beverage$12,66578%
- Education$1,2538%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 31 | $2,845 |
| AbbVie | 122 | $2,649 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 77 | $1,722 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 47 | $1,648 |
| Sanofi | 34 | $1,303 |
| Pfizer | 79 | $981 |
| Amgen | 27 | $835 |
| Novartis | 42 | $609 |
| UCB, Inc. | 27 | $598 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 17 | $507 |
| Incyte Corporation | 13 | $427 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 21 | $401 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 24 | $297 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 18 | $266 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $239 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 23 | $229 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 13 | $183 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $132 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $95 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 3 | $49 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $23 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Organon | 3 | $11 |
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
$16,252 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 17 | $64,488 |
| Ketoconazole | 211 | $3,304 |
| Fluorouracil | 37 | $2,776 |
| Desonide | 40 | $2,269 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 65 | $2,098 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 40 | $1,779 |
| Mupirocin | 211 | $1,776 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 125 | $1,137 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 20 | $1,034 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 98 | $712 |
| Fluocinonide | 22 | $668 |
| Metronidazole | 14 | $665 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 52 | $627 |
| Nystatin | 35 | $499 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 14 | $332 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Hickory
- Sarah PadgettHickory$29K
- 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
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.