Melissa Carlton
Nurse Practitioner · Lenoir, NCNPI 1427086743
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 282 payments — averaging $13.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Novo Nordisk$397
- Lilly USA, LLC$365
- AstraZeneca$315
- Pfizer$305
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$134
- plus $1K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,915100%
- Education$80%
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.
How this compares
$3,924 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,393 nurse practitioner providers in North Carolina.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 267 | $308,723 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 122 | $113,131 |
| EliquisApixaban | 100 | $91,338 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 83 | $78,884 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 61 | $65,530 |
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 23 | $47,726 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 30 | $42,645 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 26 | $35,331 |
| Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 27 | $34,798 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 37 | $34,365 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 30 | $31,685 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 18 | $30,616 |
| VraylarCariprazine Hcl | 19 | $26,931 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 22 | $25,776 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 47 | $22,590 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $397 | $334,499289 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $120 | $101,474130 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Vraylar | $1,128 | $92,46280 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $305 | $91,338100 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $365 | $77,97656 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $315 | $56,61075 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $18 | $31,68530 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $88 | $30,61618 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $16 | $13,72215 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix | $95 | $10,94415 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $90 | $7,69512 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 4,393 nurse practitioner providers in North Carolina.
Other nurse practitioner in Lenoir
- Sandrivette JohnsonRaleigh$573K
- Skyler RogersPinehurst$174K
- Jamie DinerDurham$170K
- Ayeshia WrightMocksville$145K
- Deborah AllenDurham$112K
- Jeanann VawterGastonia$97K
- Terra KampJacksonville$72K
- Mary DilorenzoCharlotte$71K
- Olivia OgburnWinston Salem$70K
- Bridget ArchambaultDurham$57K
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.