Lakisha Highe
Public Health & General Preventive Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1275249971
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.7% of the total across 272 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 30 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,314, 3.3 times the $1,006 reported in 2023.
Across 272 payments — averaging $25.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- AstraZeneca$726
- Novartis$641
- UCB, Inc.$635
- Johnson & Johnson$362
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,920100%
- Education$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 57 | $1,248 |
| AbbVie | 34 | $1,047 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $726 |
| Novartis | 32 | $641 |
| UCB, Inc. | 21 | $635 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19 | $362 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $311 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $267 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 6 | $243 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $185 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $150 |
| GSK | 6 | $144 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $120 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $117 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $111 |
| Organon | 4 | $100 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 4 | $87 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 3 | $70 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $41 |
| Sandoz | 2 | $41 |
| Invivyd Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $22 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
Too few public health & general preventive medicine providers in North Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 65 | $3,365 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 162 | $2,980 |
| Leflunomide | 35 | $2,910 |
| Celecoxib | 38 | $2,055 |
| Prednisone | 207 | $888 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 26 | $362 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 13 | $271 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $258 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other public health & general preventive medicine in Charlotte
- Asha SternHuntersville$962
- John PittmanRaleigh$416
- Scott ShapiroIndian Trail$248
- Devlin ColeAsheville$196
- Kimberly McDonaldApex$43
- Jack TaylorDurham$41
- Rachel BaldwinWinston Salem$41
- Kevin Mensah-BineyChapel Hill$24
- Peter MorrisRaleigh$20
- Peter MorrisRaleigh$19
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.