Katherine Franco, PA
Physician Assistant · Tampa, FLNPI 1134636509
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 60 payments — averaging $19.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$149
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$145
- AstraZeneca$128
- Lilly USA, LLC$104
- Amgen$103
- AbbVie$103
- plus $449 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,182100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayer | 7 | $149 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $145 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $128 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $104 |
| Amgen | 7 | $103 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $103 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 5 | $80 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $70 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Merck | 3 | $40 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $32 |
| Corium, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 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.
- PROVENGE$145
How this compares
$1,182 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 8,062 physician assistant providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 100 | $672 |
| Ofloxacin | 14 | $579 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 81 | $520 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 57 | $405 |
| Cephalexin | 35 | $320 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 16 | $296 |
| Azithromycin | 85 | $290 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 12 | $278 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 19 | $214 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 29 | $167 |
| Prednisone | 85 | $157 |
| Fluconazole | 15 | $73 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 17 | $68 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Kevin AllisonTampa$88K
- Tiffany ValoneTampa$62K
- David JohnsonTampa$51K
- Kimberly SidersTampa$47K
- Jaime ApplefieldTampa$39K
- Kenneth BoccaccioTampa$31K
- Mark HonorTampa$30K
- Richard MarshallPort Orange$988K
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.