Sara Ackerman, PA
Physician Assistant · Lawrenceburg, KYNPI 1467504845
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 330 payments — averaging $19.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- GSK$1K
- Pfizer$434
- Sanofi$428
- AbbVie$362
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$357
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,15497%
- Education$1663%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 52 | $1,361 |
| GSK | 90 | $1,340 |
| Pfizer | 32 | $434 |
| Sanofi | 11 | $428 |
| AbbVie | 21 | $362 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 13 | $357 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $229 |
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $177 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $172 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 15 | $163 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 15 | $155 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Amgen | 2 | $129 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $92 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $88 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 3 | $59 |
| Covis Pharma GmbH | 4 | $58 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Merck | 2 | $39 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Bayer | 2 | $35 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $21 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $15 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Biogen | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $14 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Organon | 1 | $9 |
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
$6,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,448 physician assistant providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 13 | $11,084 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 15 | $10,909 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 11 | $10,044 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 13 | $10,043 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 13 | $5,366 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 82 | $2,048 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 40 | $769 |
| Cefdinir | 51 | $486 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $327 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 24 | $204 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 20 | $201 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 37 | $184 |
| RizatriptanRizatriptan Benzoate | 13 | $180 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 15 | $179 |
| Losartan Potassium | 14 | $162 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $434 | $11,08413 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $1,340 | $10,90915 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $177 | $10,04411 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $92 | $10,04313 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $1,361 | $5,36613 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,448 physician assistant providers in Kentucky.
Other physician assistant in Lawrenceburg
- Brandice HarrisonLexington$745K
- Lauren MeadeLexington$656K
- Melissa DavisLouisville$362K
- Kara MuddLouisville$98K
- Seth KingBowling Green$91K
- Marty MullinsHazard$63K
- Lauri GarnerVersailles$33K
- Robert TatumLouisville$29K
- Michelle JonesLexington$29K
- Grace IsaacsLouisville$28K
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.