Kelly Bridgeman
Pediatrics · Hickory, NCNPI 1619955952
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $17.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$200
- GSK$190
- Tris Pharma Inc$177
- Pfizer$161
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$139
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$94
- plus $424 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,386100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 13 | $200 |
| GSK | 10 | $190 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 11 | $177 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $161 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $139 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 6 | $94 |
| Merck | 4 | $72 |
| Corium, LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $54 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 3 | $53 |
| Organon | 3 | $38 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $25 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,386 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,818 pediatrics providers in North Carolina.
Other pediatrics in Hickory
- Priya KishnaniDurham$20.3M
- Dwight KoeberlDurham$9.2M
- Emmanuel WalterDurham$8M
- Joseph MuenzerChapel Hill$5.9M
- Edward SmithDurham$2.8M
- Christine TurleyCharlotte$1.5M
- Maria EscolarChapel Hill$1.3M
- Rasheed GbadegesinDurham$1M
- David KatzWake Forest$671K
- James AndersonHigh Point$669K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.