Has Jenette Swisher received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,533 in general payments to Jenette Swisher across 508 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Jenette Swisher did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Jenette Swisher come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Jenette Swisher

Internal Medicine · Hickory, NCNPI 1295757318

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,533in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 508 payments — averaging $20.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Merz North America, Inc.$2K
AstraZeneca$2K
AbbVie$1K
Novo Nordisk$918
Lilly USA, LLC$668
Boehringer Ingelheim$497
plus $3K from 39 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,14911%
Food & beverage$9,36589%
Education$180%

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
Merz North America, Inc.	25	$2,451
AstraZeneca	36	$1,580
AbbVie(2 entities)	62	$1,430
Novo Nordisk	99	$918
Lilly USA, LLC	49	$668
Boehringer Ingelheim	57	$497
Amgen	25	$381
Pfizer	18	$274
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	17	$242
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	12	$233
GSK	7	$225
Bayer	8	$221
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	14	$207
Johnson & Johnson	11	$157
Novartis	8	$122
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	4	$104
Merck	7	$94
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	6	$85
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$52
Kaleo, Inc.	2	$47
Abbott	2	$44
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$42
Lundbeck LLC	2	$41
Neos Therapeutics, LP	3	$38
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	3	$35
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$29
Radius Health, Inc.	2	$27
Tris Pharma Inc	2	$26
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$23
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	2	$22
Eisai Inc.	2	$22
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	1	$20
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	1	$15
IBSA Pharma Inc.	1	$14
Exact Sciences	1	$14
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$14
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$13
Mylan Specialty L.p.	1	$13
Dexcom, Inc.	1	$12
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$12
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$12
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	1	$12
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$11
Seqirus USA Inc	1	$11

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.

XEOMIN$1,580
FARXIGA$1,194
BREZTRI$471
BOTOX$274
TRELEGY ELLIPTA$124

How this compares

$10,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Omeprazole	20	$351
Simvastatin	21	$318
Donepezil Hcl	14	$294

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Sylvia ShoffnerCary$7.1M
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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