Sterling Nicholson
Family · Danbury, NCNPI 1861018897
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 543 payments — averaging $16.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Pfizer$982
- Lilly USA, LLC$916
- Boehringer Ingelheim$570
- plus $3K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,97999%
- Education$1121%
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 | 105 | $1,563 |
| Novo Nordisk | 89 | $1,351 |
| AstraZeneca | 59 | $1,168 |
| Pfizer | 58 | $982 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 55 | $916 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 28 | $570 |
| GSK | 24 | $398 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 16 | $300 |
| Amgen | 21 | $255 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 12 | $217 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $191 |
| Novartis | 8 | $152 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $133 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $130 |
| Bayer | 5 | $85 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 4 | $62 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $42 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Corium, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $19 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals 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
$9,091 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,522 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 30 | $41,826 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 37 | $37,775 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 26 | $29,732 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 21 | $23,493 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 12 | $11,953 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 12 | $8,913 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 13 | $7,424 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 15 | $2,029 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 11 | $1,429 |
| Vilazodone Hcl | 11 | $1,085 |
| Pyridostigmine Bromide | 13 | $1,031 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 11 | $897 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 71 | $847 |
| Allopurinol | 60 | $622 |
| Memantine Hcl | 13 | $598 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $570 | $41,82630 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $916 | $41,68538 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $1,351 | $37,77537 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $1,168 | $23,49321 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $130 | $8,91312 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $21 | $7,42413 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $1,563 | $1,42911 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 95th percentile of 4,522 family providers in North Carolina.
Other family in Danbury
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- Michele CerraRaleigh$332K
- Anne LakeArchdale$306K
- Carrie PettitRaleigh$298K
- Nicole RothmanDurham$268K
- Meredith LeaYanceyville$253K
- Jennifer GibbsRaleigh$216K
- Juanita PerkinsDurham$213K
- Teresa DossWilmington$137K
- Debra ScottCharlotte$129K
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.