James Franklin, PA
Physician Assistant · Clayton, NCNPI 1407859077
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,017 of the $1,188 with a category attached, or 85.7%. Eli Lilly accounts for 85.7% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,053 and has fallen 89.7% since, to $109 in 2025.
Across 20 payments — averaging $59.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$1K
- Novo Nordisk$47
- Novartis$31
- AbbVie$31
- Davol Inc.$26
- Lilly USA, LLC$19
- plus $16 from 1 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $10,731 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AstraZeneca$16K
- Novartis$16K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,01786%
- Food & beverage$17014%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 9 | $1,017 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $47 |
| Novartis | 2 | $31 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $31 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$1,188 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $193 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $136 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $124 |
| Azithromycin | 19 | $69 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 14 | $54 |
| Meloxicam | 19 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Clayton
- 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.