Kristen Franceschina
Physician Assistant · Charlotte, NCNPI 1821563438
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 391 payments — averaging $23.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Pfizer$816
- Novartis$659
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$643
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$612
- plus $3K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,64096%
- Education$3974%
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 | 108 | $2,205 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 31 | $1,012 |
| Pfizer | 40 | $816 |
| Novartis | 29 | $659 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 13 | $643 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 26 | $612 |
| Incyte Corporation | 19 | $445 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 24 | $372 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $284 |
| UCB, Inc. | 14 | $252 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $229 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 21 | $226 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $207 |
| Sanofi | 7 | $176 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $160 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 7 | $155 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $148 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 7 | $132 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $102 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Amgen | 2 | $50 |
| Organon | 2 | $42 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $20 |
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
$9,037 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Fluocinonide | 24 | $2,037 |
| Ketoconazole | 48 | $674 |
| Mometasone Furoate | 11 | $191 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 11 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Charlotte
- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Kristin CabedaCharlotte$135K
- Meghan EmigCharlotte$124K
- Juleidy TurnipseedCharlotte$84K
- Erin SiceloffCharlotte$50K
- Ronald RodriguezCharlotte$31K
- Lamiaa TolbaCharlotte$29K
- Sanaya GandhiCharlotte$29K
- Jacqueline LeyrerCharlotte$24K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.