Has Jerome Watson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,275 in general payments to Jerome Watson, MD across 915 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 Jerome Watson, MD 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 Jerome Watson, MD 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.

Jerome Watson, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Statesville, NCNPI 1336144138

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,275in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 915 payments — averaging $16.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Amgen$3K
Novartis$2K
AbbVie$2K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
UCB, Inc.$925
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$869
plus $6K from 53 others

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
Amgen(2 entities)	188	$3,032
Novartis	110	$1,680
AbbVie	80	$1,656
Johnson & Johnson	86	$1,341
UCB, Inc.	77	$925
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	59	$869
Radius Health, Inc.	31	$646
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	22	$457
Boehringer Ingelheim	27	$444
Pfizer	34	$385
GSK	29	$379
Octapharma USA, Inc.	2	$313
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	15	$268
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	9	$211
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	10	$206
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.	11	$172
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	7	$135
Sandoz	6	$129
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$128
Bristol Myers Squibb	7	$125
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	7	$111
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	5	$109
Sanofi	6	$101
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	5	$94
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	7	$92
Organon	5	$82
Lilly USA, LLC	6	$80
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$78
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$77
Abbott	5	$72
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	3	$62
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	1	$60
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$58
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$56
Eisai Inc.	3	$51
GRT US Holding, Inc.	5	$49
Bioventus LLC	3	$48
Sobi, Inc	2	$43
Shield Therapeutics Inc	3	$42
Boston Scientific	2	$39
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	2	$39
MDD US Operations, LLC	3	$37
Exact Sciences	2	$32
Vertex	1	$28
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$23
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$23
Acacia Pharma Inc	1	$23
Novo Nordisk	1	$16
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$16
Tonix Medicines, Inc.	1	$16
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$15
Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$14
Merck	1	$14
Optos, Inc.	1	$13
Lundbeck LLC	1	$13
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$13
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	1	$12
Bayer	1	$12
Almatica Pharma LLC	1	$12

How this compares

$15,275 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 269 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$435,892

Medicare patients

327

Services billed

7,715

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.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Statesville

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Jeremy HoffWilmington$152K
William BeckworthHendersonville$104K
Patrick O BrienRaleigh$86K
Michael OrtizCharlotte$62K
Elizabeth BagsbyGreenville$33K
Krishna BhatSanford$30K
Jasbir DhaliwalSanford$23K
Jimmy MaliDurham$20K

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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.

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