John Pickett
Family Medicine · Sharpsburg, NCNPI 1629134127
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 143 payments — averaging $15.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$599
- AstraZeneca$311
- Boehringer Ingelheim$232
- Lilly USA, LLC$218
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$144
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$142
- plus $567 from 13 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $250.00 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.
- LEO Pharma AS$250
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,19899%
- Education$151%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 46 | $599 |
| AstraZeneca | 21 | $311 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $232 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 14 | $218 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 9 | $144 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 6 | $142 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $118 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $87 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $57 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Novartis | 3 | $44 |
| Abbott | 2 | $43 |
| GSK | 3 | $41 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $38 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $25 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$2,213 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 12 | $626 |
| Mirtazapine | 12 | $160 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 17 | $100 |
| Lisinopril | 15 | $89 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 12 | $78 |
| Losartan Potassium | 12 | $61 |
| Ezetimibe | 12 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Sharpsburg
- Barton WilliamsWilmington$17.3M
- Alexander MurrayGreensboro$13M
- Arin PiramzadianJacksonville$13M
- Jonathan WilsonHickory$12.7M
- George RaadCharlotte$7.7M
- Cecil FarringtonSalisbury$6.4M
- Christian MartinShelby$5.4M
- John EarlHickory$4.7M
- Patrick MorganteHavelock$4.6M
- Stephen JonesShelby$4.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.