Laverne Watts
Nurse Practitioner · Annapolis, MDNPI 1275168478
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 92 payments — averaging $18.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$365
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$223
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$151
- Redhill Biopharma Inc.$147
- Merck$110
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$93
- plus $590 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,679100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 17 | $365 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 13 | $223 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 11 | $151 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 9 | $147 |
| Merck | 6 | $110 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $93 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $49 |
| Gilead | 2 | $47 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $42 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $30 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Amgen | 2 | $29 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 3 | $21 |
| Organon | 1 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $18 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$1,679 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,562 nurse practitioner providers in Maryland.
Other nurse practitioner in Annapolis
- Martha ReilleyAnnapolis$18K
- Stephanie ZwonitzerAnnapolis$16K
- Diane SchmidtAnnapolis$9K
- Morgan GaleRockville$292K
- Sherilyn BrinkleyBaltimore$100K
- Michelle TurnerBaltimore$94K
- Nelli ZafmanLutherville$67K
- Ellen LancasterFallston$52K
- Doris TateEaston$34K
- Zeev NemirovskyBaltimore$19K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.