Joni Morcom, PA
Physician Assistant · Lynchburg, VANPI 1962911842
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (43.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 86.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,755, more than ten times the $88 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 43 payments — averaging $132.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$253
- Novo Nordisk$173
- AbbVie$113
- Abbott$88
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$63
- plus $91 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4207%
- Grants$2,50044%
- Travel & lodging$1,47426%
- Food & beverage$1,29923%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 21 | $4,913 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 10 | $253 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $173 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $113 |
| Abbott | 2 | $88 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $24 |
| Bayer | 1 | $21 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
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.
- SYMPLICITY G3$1,667
- Wegovy$121
- QULIPTA$113
- UBRELVY$113
How this compares
$5,693 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,376 physician assistant providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 425 | $392,376 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 58 | $60,913 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 61 | $53,513 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 19 | $13,330 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 11 | $8,881 |
| Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate | 22 | $5,926 |
| Prasugrel Hcl | 43 | $3,616 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 15 | $3,012 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 190 | $1,500 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 259 | $1,391 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 140 | $1,346 |
| Famotidine | 128 | $1,299 |
| Ezetimibe | 38 | $1,167 |
| Carvedilol | 188 | $1,161 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 133 | $1,056 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Lynchburg
- John DalessandroSalem$160K
- Jalal AlghabraFredericksburg$119K
- Jamie GiovanelliVirginia Beach$118K
- John CarterStaunton$90K
- Melissa AlcoxNorfolk$73K
- Lindsay TomReston$71K
- Robert HigginsonRichmond$66K
- Jameka McElroy-BrooklynArlington$65K
- Hillary HartungNorfolk$62K
- Juliette BeristainVirginia Beach$54K
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.