Nicole Owens
Physician Assistant · Charlotte, NCNPI 1568005023
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 88 payments — averaging $29.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$166
- Merz North America, Inc.$157
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$157
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$147
- Novartis$84
- plus $384 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,575100%
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(2 entities) | 40 | $1,480 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 5 | $166 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $157 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Novartis | 6 | $84 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $62 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| GSK | 2 | $27 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $12 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $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
$2,575 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Other physician assistant in Charlotte
- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Kristin CabedaCharlotte$135K
- Meghan EmigCharlotte$124K
- Juleidy TurnipseedCharlotte$84K
- Erin SiceloffCharlotte$50K
- Ronald RodriguezCharlotte$31K
- Lamiaa TolbaCharlotte$29K
- Sanaya GandhiCharlotte$29K
- Jacqueline LeyrerCharlotte$24K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.