Michael Duerkes, PA
Physician Assistant · Morganton, NCNPI 1750650099
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 67 payments — averaging $89.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$5K
- Medtronic$590
- Stryker$82
- Johnson & Johnson$82
- Medacta USA, Inc.$75
- Averitas Pharma Inc.$62
- plus $403 from 15 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $300.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,00017%
- Speaking & faculty fees$75013%
- Travel & lodging$2,28238%
- Food & beverage$1,89632%
- Education$661%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 21 | $4,700 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $590 |
| Stryker | 2 | $82 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $82 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $75 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $44 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Vertex | 2 | $44 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 8 | $42 |
| BREG, Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $19 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Nanohive Medical LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Hospira, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Elevation Spine, Inc. | 2 | $13 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $12 |
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
$5,993 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 203 | $1,214 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 101 | $1,043 |
| Pregabalin | 46 | $700 |
| Gabapentin | 87 | $672 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 56 | $568 |
| Celecoxib | 28 | $443 |
| Methocarbamol | 60 | $397 |
| Meloxicam | 112 | $391 |
| Famotidine | 32 | $126 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $124 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $32 |
| Diazepam | 32 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.