Meghan Burton, PA
Physician Assistant · Providence, RINPI 1124456124
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,786 of the $6,243 with a category attached, or 76.7%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 35.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,826 and has fallen 96.5% since, to $135 in 2025. Among physician assistant clinicians in RI 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 81 payments — averaging $77.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$285
- Atricure, Inc.$267
- Amgen$254
- plus $483 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,32221%
- Food & beverage$4,78677%
- Education$1352%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 23 | $2,225 |
| Abbott | 18 | $1,546 |
| Boston Scientific | 19 | $1,183 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $285 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $267 |
| Amgen | 3 | $254 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 4 | $252 |
| Osprey Medical Inc | 1 | $116 |
| Novartis | 3 | $44 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $27 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $23 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $20 |
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$453
- Micra$404
- OPTIMIZER$356
- QUADRA ASSURA$291
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$267
- XARELTO$249
- Repatha$247
- MitraClip$245
- Watchman$189
- AVEIR$174
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$154
- JOT DX$140
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$127
- MitraClip System$124
- DyeVert$116
- ENSITE PRECISION$106
How this compares
$6,243 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 481 physician assistant providers in Rhode Island.
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.
Other physician assistant in Providence
- Thomas BalesProvidence$28K
- Paige LovelaceProvidence$9K
- Christina TravisonoProvidence$7K
- Helen NguyenProvidence$6K
- James NoonProvidence$6K
- Mark TrottProvidence$5K
- Victoria WebberProvidence$5K
- Christine PalecznyProvidence$4K
- Jessica HitteProvidence$4K
- Emily GroteProvidence$4K
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.