Laura Barton, PA
Physician Assistant · Goldsboro, NCNPI 1649515024
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 104 payments — averaging $18.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$483
- AbbVie$320
- AstraZeneca$146
- Abiomed$130
- Amgen$106
- Merck$96
- plus $600 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,881100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 33 | $483 |
| AbbVie | 22 | $320 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $146 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $130 |
| Amgen | 7 | $106 |
| Merck | 5 | $96 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $92 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $82 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 5 | $78 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $74 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $60 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $44 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Impella$130
How this compares
$1,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 53 | $83,418 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 73 | $81,294 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 59 | $39,554 |
| EliquisApixaban | 21 | $31,763 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 33 | $28,574 |
| WegovySemaglutide | 16 | $20,922 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 17 | $17,304 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 12 | $15,431 |
| Trijardy XrEmpaglifloz/Linaglip/Metformin | 12 | $10,927 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 19 | $10,653 |
| BelsomraSuvorexant | 15 | $9,524 |
| Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5)Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/7 | 12 | $6,756 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 11 | $6,056 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 12 | $5,615 |
| Bevespi AerosphereGlycopyrrolate/Formoterol Fum | 12 | $5,099 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Wegovy | $483 | $104,34069 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Trijardy Xr | $74 | $92,22185 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $82 | $31,76321 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $92 | $17,30417 claims |
| MerckBelsomra, Januvia | $96 | $15,58026 claims |
| AstraZenecaBevespi Aerosphere | $146 | $5,09912 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $320 | $2,36137 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $12 | $1,771143 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Other physician assistant in Goldsboro
- Brooke JonesGoldsboro$259K
- Jo HughesGreensboro$814K
- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Benjamin EpsteinDavidson$447K
- Rebecca KrausDavidson$425K
- Philip ReasbeckWilson$180K
- Katherine SchultzHuntersville$164K
- Kristin CabedaCharlotte$135K
- Jay ClarkeArden$133K
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.