Kerry Shepherd
Physician Assistant · Asheville, NCNPI 1952696528
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 275 payments — averaging $18.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$567
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$510
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$404
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$401
- Lundbeck LLC$322
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,12499%
- Education$471%
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 | 71 | $1,200 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 33 | $567 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 29 | $510 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 24 | $404 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 15 | $401 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 14 | $322 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 15 | $294 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 8 | $247 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $223 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 12 | $214 |
| Corium, LLC | 14 | $182 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 8 | $135 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $104 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 4 | $69 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $47 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Indivior Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $27 |
| OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
How this compares
$5,171 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Duloxetine Hcl | 44 | $280 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 12 | $272 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 23 | $250 |
| Aripiprazole | 11 | $200 |
| Mirtazapine | 13 | $128 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 13 | $118 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 42 | $97 |
| Lamotrigine | 14 | $97 |
| Clonazepam | 13 | $68 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 13 | $64 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 11 | $31 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 24 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Jeremy DavidsonAsheville$96K
- John AveretteAsheville$34K
- Carrie VoedischAsheville$32K
- Jo HughesGreensboro$814K
- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Benjamin EpsteinDavidson$447K
- Rebecca KrausDavidson$425K
- Brooke JonesGoldsboro$259K
- Philip ReasbeckWilson$180K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.