Laura King
Physician Assistant · Royal Oak, MINPI 1174922694
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (55.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 92.3% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $30,262, more than ten times the $619 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 242 payments — averaging $258.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$58K
- Medtronic$3K
- Abiomed$380
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$351
- Biotronik Inc.$265
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$189
- plus $887 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,2002%
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,90056%
- Travel & lodging$15,50925%
- Food & beverage$10,94117%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 144 | $57,742 |
| Medtronic | 67 | $2,736 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $380 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 6 | $351 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 4 | $265 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $189 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $132 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $113 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $107 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $107 |
| Abbott | 1 | $105 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $30 |
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.
- WATCHMAN Access System$26,130
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$9,370
- LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor$8,159
- WATCHMAN FLX$2,567
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$2,372
- Micra$507
- Impella$253
- Assure WCD$249
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$142
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$132
- LINQ II$131
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$130
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$128
- RYBELSUS$113
- Trudhesa$107
- JARDIANCE$107
- MYNX CONTROL VENOUS$107
- ENSITE$105
How this compares
$62,550 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,453 physician assistant providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 88 | $113,287 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 16 | $18,419 |
| Quinidine Gluconate | 16 | $11,237 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 58 | $4,216 |
| Dofetilide | 30 | $2,915 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 22 | $1,392 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 63 | $880 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 14 | $530 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 41 | $384 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 13 | $335 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 12 | $154 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 11 | $118 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 12 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Royal Oak
- Sarang PatelRoyal Oak$660K
- Gabrielle DamoreRoyal Oak$200K
- Inge HanschuRoyal Oak$21K
- Beth SweneyAda$617K
- Zainab JishiCanton$596K
- Taylor HennrickAdrian$430K
- Erin van DykeGrand Rapids$346K
- Ashley AldridgeAnn Arbor$298K
- Derek SusallaRochester Hills$242K
- Melissa MickelsonKalamazoo$168K
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.