Samantha Russo
Physician Assistant · Lincolnton, NCNPI 1760260772
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 41 payments — averaging $23.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$295
- AstraZeneca$103
- Lilly USA, LLC$57
- AbbVie$55
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$54
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$43
- plus $360 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$967100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $295 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $103 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $57 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $55 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $54 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $43 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $39 |
| Bayer | 2 | $38 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $30 |
| Amgen | 2 | $29 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $25 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Wegovy$114
How this compares
$967 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 36 | $167 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 18 | $150 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 18 | $106 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $70 |
| Prednisone | 33 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Lincolnton
- Jo HughesGreensboro$814K
- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Benjamin EpsteinDavidson$447K
- Rebecca KrausDavidson$425K
- Brooke JonesGoldsboro$259K
- Philip ReasbeckWilson$180K
- Katherine SchultzHuntersville$164K
- Kristin CabedaCharlotte$135K
- Jay ClarkeArden$133K
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.