Nicole Desimone
Physician Assistant · Baltimore, MDNPI 1649991050
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 173 payments — averaging $16.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$409
- AbbVie$408
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$301
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$289
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$226
- Corium, LLC$225
- plus $962 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,819100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 25 | $409 |
| AbbVie | 18 | $408 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 20 | $301 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 20 | $289 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 16 | $226 |
| Corium, LLC | 14 | $225 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $175 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 12 | $156 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $114 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 7 | $112 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 4 | $66 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 4 | $62 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Merck | 3 | $48 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- VRAYLAR$125
How this compares
$2,819 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,567 physician assistant providers in Maryland.
Other physician assistant in Baltimore
- Kara CossisBaltimore$177K
- Melissa BearekmanBaltimore$81K
- Bruce SmithBaltimore$63K
- Shannon MarriottBaltimore$38K
- Praveena GadamBaltimore$24K
- James ShafferBaltimore$12K
- Joyce FreidlyBaltimore$10K
- Maria RosenbergBaltimore$10K
- Thomas PetryBaltimore$10K
- Margaret JoyceTowson$220K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.