Morgan Poston
Physician Assistant · Durham, NCNPI 1740800903
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 544 payments — averaging $17.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$1K
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$682
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$660
- Alkermes, Inc.$643
- Lundbeck LLC$561
- plus $4K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,680100%
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 | 93 | $1,589 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 99 | $1,130 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 31 | $682 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 39 | $660 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 31 | $643 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 30 | $561 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 26 | $558 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $486 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 18 | $332 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 16 | $303 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 19 | $295 |
| Corium, LLC | 14 | $289 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $250 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 8 | $249 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $243 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $215 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $215 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $143 |
| Indivior Inc. | 8 | $139 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 7 | $121 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 7 | $108 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $99 |
| Merck | 6 | $94 |
| Amgen | 4 | $84 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $43 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $22 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Brainsway USA Inc | 1 | $13 |
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
$9,680 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Paliperidone ErPaliperidone | 12 | $1,542 |
| Mirtazapine | 11 | $323 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 18 | $292 |
| Divalproex Sodium | 24 | $208 |
| Propranolol Hcl ErPropranolol Hcl | 13 | $138 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 13 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Durham
- Joseph LicataDurham$29K
- Beth ParenteDurham$28K
- Jo HughesGreensboro$814K
- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Benjamin EpsteinDavidson$447K
- Rebecca KrausDavidson$425K
- Brooke JonesGoldsboro$259K
- Philip ReasbeckWilson$180K
- Katherine SchultzHuntersville$164K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.