Taylor Fontaine, PA
Physician Assistant · Fargo, NDNPI 1033593025
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,476 of the $2,003 with a category attached, or 73.7%. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by Aerin Medical Inc. at 42.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $715 and has fallen 54.2% since, to $327 in 2025. Among physician assistant clinicians in ND with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 68 payments — averaging $29.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aerin Medical Inc.$856
- Lilly USA, LLC$146
- Johnson & Johnson$91
- AstraZeneca$91
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$77
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$77
- plus $664 from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$46623%
- Food & beverage$1,47674%
- Education$613%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aerin Medical Inc. | 8 | $856 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $146 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $91 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $91 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $75 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $70 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $42 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $40 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $38 |
| Novartis | 2 | $33 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $30 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $21 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $18 |
| GSK | 1 | $18 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Intersect ENT, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
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.
- VIVAER STYLUS$609
- RHINAER STYLUS$609
How this compares
$2,003 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 355 physician assistant providers in North Dakota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ipratropium Bromide | 87 | $2,540 |
| Fluorouracil | 14 | $1,335 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 32 | $774 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 61 | $643 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 18 | $500 |
| Omeprazole | 60 | $474 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 23 | $436 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 12 | $182 |
| Mupirocin | 20 | $160 |
| Famotidine | 26 | $149 |
| Prednisone | 34 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Fargo
- Cristy BrosowskeFargo$8K
- Matthew HockertFargo$5K
- Megan BooseFargo$4K
- Nikki WelkFargo$4K
- Shara DiersFargo$4K
- Marc BiggerstaffFargo$3K
- Stephen AldredFargo$3K
- Breanna WuoriFargo$2K
- Stephanie HinkleFargo$2K
- Alexa PrivratskyFargo$2K
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.