Has Lauri Best received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,419 in general payments to Lauri Best across 86 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Lauri Best did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Lauri Best come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Lauri Best

Obstetrics & Gynecology · Mooresville, NCNPI 1841253135

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 86 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 12.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $531 and has fallen 95.8% since, to $22 in 2024.

$1,419in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 86 payments — averaging $16.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Avion Pharmaceuticals$182
AbbVie$166
Pfizer$108
Astellas Pharma US Inc$85
Novo Nordisk$83
Exeltis, USA Inc.$76
plus $720 from 24 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,419100%

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
Avion Pharmaceuticals	17	$182
AbbVie	10	$166
Pfizer	6	$108
Astellas Pharma US Inc	4	$85
Novo Nordisk	5	$83
Exeltis, USA Inc.	5	$76
Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC	3	$70
Organon	4	$62
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	3	$56
Scynexis, Inc.	2	$44
Masimo Corporation	1	$42
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	2	$41
Hologic Inc	2	$40
Bayer	1	$30
Evofem Biosciences, Inc.	2	$30
Therapeuticsmd, Inc.	2	$30
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	2	$28
Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$28
Myovant Sciences Inc.	1	$27
Coopersurgical, Inc.	2	$26
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$22
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$20
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	1	$20
Minerva Surgical, Inc	1	$19
Renovia Inc	1	$18
Aspira Women's Health Inc	1	$17
Agile Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$13
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$13
Lupin Inc.	1	$12

How this compares

$1,419 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,344 obstetrics & gynecology providers in North Carolina.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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