Kate Tripp, PA
Physician Assistant · West Des Moines, IANPI 1073949236
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 43 payments — averaging $25.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$168
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$130
- Axonics, Inc.$125
- 180 Medical, Inc.$117
- Novo Nordisk$116
- Teleflex LLC$86
- plus $352 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,02994%
- Education$656%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 7 | $168 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $130 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $125 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 5 | $117 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $116 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $86 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $82 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $65 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $61 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| GSK | 1 | $17 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $13 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $3 |
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.
- Wegovy$100
How this compares
$1,094 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,140 physician assistant providers in Iowa.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 260 | $184,850 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 216 | $151,031 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 914 | $18,270 |
| ElmironPentosan Polysulfate Sodium | 13 | $10,575 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 136 | $10,250 |
| Estradiol | 94 | $7,269 |
| Fesoterodine Fumarate ErFesoterodine Fumarate | 54 | $6,291 |
| Finasteride | 535 | $6,127 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 112 | $4,997 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 37 | $4,018 |
| Desmopressin Acetate | 37 | $2,644 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 133 | $2,593 |
| Trimethoprim | 49 | $2,409 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 130 | $2,172 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 40 | $1,935 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $65 | $184,850260 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 1,140 physician assistant providers in Iowa.
Other physician assistant in West Des Moines
- Laura CunninghamWest Des Moines$128K
- Taylor MyersWest Des Moines$7K
- Bianca WaldschmidtWest Des Moines$7K
- Amanda van WykWest Des Moines$6K
- Caitlin StudleyWest Des Moines$5K
- Christine HaackWest Des Moines$5K
- Lauren CrawfordWest Des Moines$5K
- McKenzie TonksWest Des Moines$4K
- Bailey O'DonnellWest Des Moines$4K
- Racheal McMahonWest Des Moines$4K
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.