Patrick Higgins, PA
Physician Assistant · Jersey City, NJNPI 1174754725
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 45 payments — averaging $17.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$249
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$170
- Si-bone, Inc.$84
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$63
- Bioventus LLC$62
- Vertex$47
- plus $127 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$801100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 13 | $249 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $170 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $84 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $63 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $62 |
| Vertex | 3 | $47 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $31 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $30 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $12 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$801 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,726 physician assistant providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 198 | $5,611 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 26 | $599 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 25 | $415 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 59 | $260 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 48 | $236 |
| Pregabalin | 15 | $228 |
| Celecoxib | 15 | $198 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 14 | $139 |
| Mupirocin | 13 | $105 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $80 |
| Amoxicillin | 22 | $73 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Jersey City
- Alexa HetzelEast Windsor$750K
- Nicole Schmid DavisHamilton$148K
- Todd NewmanHoboken$73K
- Patrick McGinnShrewsbury$72K
- Tatiana Dell'aquilaNutley$43K
- Nicole ColucciRiverdale$36K
- Salvatore SciurbaMiddletown$25K
- Jacqueline CristiniEdison$22K
- Mark MazakLakewood$21K
- Andrea BarkerPrinceton$21K
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.