Erin Waggoner
Physician Assistant · Louisville, KYNPI 1548831803
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,842 of the $14,086 with a category attached, or 84.1%. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,186, more than ten times the $535 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 495 payments — averaging $28.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$2K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$2K
- AbbVie$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Sanofi$1K
- LEO Pharma Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,55611%
- Travel & lodging$1001%
- Food & beverage$11,84284%
- Education$5874%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 58 | $1,785 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 38 | $1,670 |
| AbbVie | 97 | $1,665 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 37 | $1,628 |
| Sanofi | 52 | $1,100 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 10 | $1,042 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 24 | $940 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 37 | $888 |
| Amgen | 25 | $626 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 19 | $500 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 15 | $400 |
| UCB, Inc. | 16 | $365 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 23 | $365 |
| Incyte Corporation | 9 | $361 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 13 | $243 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $97 |
| LNHC, Inc | 1 | $68 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 2 | $32 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $29 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 2 | $26 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $16 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$14,086 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,448 physician assistant providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cosentyx Unoready PenSecukinumab | 18 | $179,214 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 14 | $50,963 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 208 | $6,530 |
| Fluorouracil | 74 | $5,905 |
| Metronidazole | 46 | $2,731 |
| Pimecrolimus | 21 | $2,150 |
| Tretinoin | 40 | $2,134 |
| Ketoconazole | 140 | $1,963 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 73 | $1,902 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 218 | $1,891 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 42 | $1,821 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 51 | $1,253 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 30 | $1,105 |
| Tacrolimus | 12 | $970 |
| Imiquimod | 16 | $860 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Louisville
- Melissa DavisLouisville$362K
- Kara MuddLouisville$98K
- Robert TatumLouisville$29K
- Grace IsaacsLouisville$28K
- Joshua CastlenLouisville$16K
- Shelley SchulerLouisville$12K
- Jacquee McNearLouisville$10K
- Kylee DreisbachLouisville$9K
- Emily LutzLouisville$9K
- Amy DavisLouisville$8K
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.