Hannah Whitenack
Physician Assistant · Roanoke, VANPI 1760408116
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 179 payments — averaging $13.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$410
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$377
- Amgen$247
- Novo Nordisk$203
- Mannkind Corporation$158
- AstraZeneca$148
- plus $955 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,493100%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 47 | $410 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 20 | $377 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 12 | $247 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $203 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 12 | $158 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $148 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $127 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $118 |
| GSK | 7 | $108 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $53 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $52 |
| Biogen | 3 | $51 |
| Novartis | 3 | $46 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $46 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $37 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Abbott | 2 | $30 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $21 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$2,498 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,376 physician assistant providers in Virginia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 55 | $436 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 32 | $228 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 11 | $224 |
| Prednisone | 48 | $171 |
| Cephalexin | 24 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Roanoke
- John DalessandroSalem$160K
- Jalal AlghabraFredericksburg$119K
- Jamie GiovanelliVirginia Beach$118K
- John CarterStaunton$90K
- Melissa AlcoxNorfolk$73K
- Lindsay TomReston$71K
- Robert HigginsonRichmond$66K
- Jameka McElroy-BrooklynArlington$65K
- Hillary HartungNorfolk$62K
- Juliette BeristainVirginia Beach$54K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.