Jacqueline Carter
Internal Medicine · Mesa, AZNPI 1669468807
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 41.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,444 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $17 in 2025.
Across 66 payments — averaging $27.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$759
- Boehringer Ingelheim$192
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$128
- Lilly USA, LLC$127
- Novo Nordisk$99
- Amgen$62
- plus $444 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$75942%
- Food & beverage$1,03557%
- Education$161%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $759 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 13 | $192 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $128 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $127 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $99 |
| Amgen | 4 | $62 |
| Merck | 4 | $56 |
| Organon | 1 | $50 |
| Novartis | 3 | $41 |
| Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Abbott | 2 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $35 |
| GSK | 2 | $31 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $28 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Endotronix, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, 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
$1,811 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
Other internal medicine in Mesa
- Mathew BenjaminMesa$17K
- Thanh NguyenMesa$16K
- Tami BruceMesa$12K
- Douglas MareadyMesa$12K
- Frank LovecchioPhoenix$911K
- Nasser HajaigPhoenix$687K
- Rajesh JanardhananTucson$685K
- Mona SelejTucson$440K
- Kelly KrohnPhoenix$262K
- Jacque SokolovScottsdale$235K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.