Has Meghan Emig received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $123,784 in general payments to Meghan Emig across 253 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 Meghan Emig 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 Meghan Emig 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.

Meghan Emig

Physician Assistant · Charlotte, NCNPI 1699746636

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $76,510 of the $123,784 with a category attached, or 61.8%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 50.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $44,833, 4.0 times the $11,176 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant clinicians in NC 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.

$123,784in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 253 payments — averaging $489.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$62K
Boston Scientific$23K
Abbott$22K
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$11K
Cvrx, Inc.$5K
Edwards Lifesciences$318
plus $103 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$24,34020%
Speaking & faculty fees$76,51062%
Travel & lodging$14,78812%
Food & beverage$8,1467%

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	97	$62,113
Boston Scientific	33	$23,066
Abbott	85	$22,179
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	20	$10,960
Cvrx, Inc.	12	$5,046
Edwards Lifesciences	3	$318
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$62
Novartis	2	$41

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.

THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$16,487
GENERAL - THERAPIES$11,694
OPTIMIZER$11,437
RESONATE EL ICD VR$5,253
Barostim Neo System$4,816
OPTIMIZER SMART SYSTEM$4,804
CARDIOMEMS$4,005
EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$1,800
General - CRM_CRM$870
LATITUDE Communicator Power Supply$290
MyCareLink$273
Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$175
COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$159
GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$116

How this compares

$123,784 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.

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Lamiaa TolbaCharlotte$29K
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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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