Tara Wood
Physician Assistant · Anchorage, AKNPI 1265980528
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,141 of the $7,636 with a category attached, or 67.3%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 48.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,400, 8.4 times the $525 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant clinicians in AK with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 163 payments — averaging $46.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- AbbVie$1K
- Novo Nordisk$631
- GSK$356
- Abbott$326
- Si-bone, Inc.$258
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,40431%
- Food & beverage$5,14167%
- Education$911%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 51 | $3,730 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 30 | $1,027 |
| Novo Nordisk | 18 | $631 |
| GSK | 10 | $356 |
| Abbott | 3 | $326 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $258 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $238 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $177 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $151 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $138 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $112 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 3 | $103 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $99 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $38 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Tonix Medicines, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Braeburn Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$2,501
- Wegovy$250
- ETERNA$227
- Accurian$226
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$196
- BOTOX$150
- INCEPTIV$127
- PAINTEQ$112
- FARXIGA$108
- Mavyret$108
How this compares
$7,636 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 365 physician assistant providers in Alaska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 53 | $71,156 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 30 | $35,911 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 16 | $22,973 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 22 | $22,186 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 14 | $12,013 |
| EliquisApixaban | 12 | $10,343 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 14 | $5,383 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 11 | $4,653 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 36 | $2,726 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 81 | $1,745 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 12 | $1,488 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 39 | $1,451 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 20 | $1,356 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 61 | $1,326 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 78 | $1,314 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $631 | $71,15653 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $41 | $35,91130 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $356 | $22,18622 claims |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca | $36 | $12,01314 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $138 | $10,34312 claims |
| AstraZenecaSymbicort | $238 | $5,38314 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $1,027 | $1,35620 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 365 physician assistant providers in Alaska.
Other physician assistant in Anchorage
- Jeremy RosieckiAnchorage$93K
- Ivy ParayoAnchorage$12K
- Shannon DieffenderferAnchorage$11K
- Zach ZipsirAnchorage$8K
- Madison RosinAnchorage$7K
- Pamela TittleAnchorage$7K
- Pamela HaughomAnchorage$7K
- Joshua HedbergAnchorage$6K
- Jo KohlerAnchorage$5K
- Brittany SedlacekAnchorage$5K
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.