Lauren Baird
Physician Assistant · Hickory, NCNPI 1659731347
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 95 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 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $919 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $29 in 2024.
Across 95 payments — averaging $18.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$290
- Novo Nordisk$239
- Preventric Diagnostics, Inc.$210
- AbbVie$143
- Bayer$127
- Lilly USA, LLC$116
- plus $610 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,735100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 16 | $290 |
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $239 |
| Preventric Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $210 |
| AbbVie | 11 | $143 |
| Bayer | 6 | $127 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $116 |
| GSK | 5 | $92 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $72 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $66 |
| Novartis | 3 | $57 |
| Abbott | 2 | $53 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $44 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $41 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $20 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $12 |
| Eisai Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$1,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 92 | $3,976 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 58 | $1,719 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 18 | $1,048 |
| Gabapentin | 34 | $647 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 23 | $149 |
| Pregabalin | 15 | $122 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $73 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Benjamin EpsteinDavidson$447K
- Rebecca KrausDavidson$425K
- Brooke JonesGoldsboro$259K
- Philip ReasbeckWilson$180K
- Katherine SchultzHuntersville$164K
- Kristin CabedaCharlotte$135K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.