Karen Jacobson
Physician Assistant · Portland, ORNPI 1588836654
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 78 payments — averaging $21.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$294
- Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.$208
- Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.$197
- Novo Nordisk$164
- Lilly USA, LLC$148
- Boehringer Ingelheim$103
- plus $559 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,64999%
- Education$241%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 16 | $294 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 3 | $208 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 2 | $197 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $164 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $148 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $103 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $65 |
| Vistapharm, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Insulet Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Abbott | 1 | $22 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $20 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Amryt Pharma Holdings Ltd | 1 | $12 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $12 |
| Zealand Pharma US, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,673 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,756 physician assistant providers in Oregon.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 39 | $3,968 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 11 | $214 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Portland
- Sean BrownPortland$43K
- Meegan MangumPortland$25K
- Scott FrazeePortland$24K
- Lucy NusralaPortland$9K
- Thomas SextonPortland$9K
- Madelyn DoPortland$8K
- Kevin BrandtPortland$8K
- Virginia WhitneyPortland$8K
- Mary BurnellPortland$7K
- William SimpsonPortland$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.