Laura Luckadoo
Pediatrics · Hickory, NCNPI 1902890452
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 124 payments — averaging $17.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$441
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$264
- Pfizer$185
- Corium, LLC$170
- Tris Pharma Inc$157
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$132
- plus $824 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,16199%
- Education$131%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 22 | $441 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 15 | $264 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $185 |
| Corium, LLC | 8 | $170 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 9 | $157 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 7 | $132 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 8 | $118 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $94 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 6 | $94 |
| Merck | 5 | $82 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $61 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $41 |
| GSK | 2 | $38 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Organon | 1 | $7 |
How this compares
$2,174 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,818 pediatrics providers in North Carolina.
Other pediatrics in Hickory
- Priya KishnaniDurham$20.3M
- Dwight KoeberlDurham$9.2M
- Emmanuel WalterDurham$8M
- Joseph MuenzerChapel Hill$5.9M
- Edward SmithDurham$2.8M
- Christine TurleyCharlotte$1.5M
- Maria EscolarChapel Hill$1.3M
- Rasheed GbadegesinDurham$1M
- David KatzWake Forest$671K
- James AndersonHigh Point$669K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.