Gina Licause
Family Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1699762039
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 98 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 98 payments — averaging $15.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$318
- Pfizer$143
- Novo Nordisk$141
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$105
- AbbVie$94
- Amgen$94
- plus $592 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,487100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 21 | $318 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $143 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $141 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $105 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $94 |
| Amgen | 5 | $94 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $80 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $73 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $57 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $54 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $49 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $38 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $31 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,487 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other family medicine in Charlotte
- Kevin SodenCharlotte$558K
- Joseph KonenCharlotte$322K
- Richard RachimaCharlotte$294K
- Dimitrios HondrosCharlotte$275K
- Thomas BarringerCharlotte$138K
- William LarsenCharlotte$74K
- William LongCharlotte$66K
- Steven BauerCharlotte$22K
- Tagbo EkwonuCharlotte$20K
- Rhett BrownCharlotte$18K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.