Frank Houston, PA
Physician Assistant · Asheboro, NCNPI 1598277691
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (50.9%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 61.2% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among physician assistant clinicians in NC 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 830 payments — averaging $35.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$18K
- Sanofi$2K
- LEO Pharma Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$1K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$947
- plus $6K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,10051%
- Food & beverage$14,01347%
- Education$5252%
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 | 181 | $18,141 |
| Sanofi | 71 | $1,622 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 77 | $1,167 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 64 | $1,164 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 52 | $1,075 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 44 | $947 |
| Novartis | 41 | $812 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 57 | $755 |
| Incyte Corporation | 32 | $725 |
| Pfizer | 35 | $556 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 27 | $540 |
| UCB, Inc. | 30 | $429 |
| Amgen | 29 | $363 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 15 | $310 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 20 | $246 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 23 | $234 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $167 |
| Almirall LLC | 5 | $72 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 3 | $56 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 4 | $53 |
| Organon | 3 | $46 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $37 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $25 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $17 |
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
$29,637 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SkyriziRisankizumab-Rzaa | 33 | $689,592 |
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 54 | $206,568 |
| OdomzoSonidegib Phosphate | 14 | $191,182 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 14 | $52,749 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 143 | $6,011 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 199 | $3,569 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 230 | $2,144 |
| Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc | 24 | $1,429 |
| Ketoconazole | 94 | $1,096 |
| Tretinoin | 11 | $840 |
| Fluocinonide | 14 | $756 |
| Ciclopirox | 18 | $670 |
| Mupirocin | 83 | $670 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 41 | $574 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 25 | $559 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieSkyrizi | $18,141 | $689,59233 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 95th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Other physician assistant in Asheboro
- 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.