Terrinda Alston
Nurse Practitioner · Norfolk, VANPI 1144601980
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.9% of the total across 405 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,400, more than ten times the $32 reported in 2021. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in VA 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 405 payments — averaging $25.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Lumenis BE Inc$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$931
- Alkermes, Inc.$927
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$702
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$698
- plus $4K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,268100%
- Education$120%
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 | 92 | $1,777 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $1,669 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 28 | $931 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 41 | $927 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 33 | $702 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 35 | $698 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 34 | $473 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 16 | $448 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 15 | $351 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 14 | $328 |
| Corium, LLC | 15 | $321 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 15 | $286 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 12 | $258 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 13 | $250 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 12 | $219 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 8 | $177 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 9 | $165 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 4 | $73 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Biogen | 3 | $55 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
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
$10,281 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,166 nurse practitioner providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 25 | $611 |
| Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine | 26 | $461 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 16 | $329 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 30 | $282 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 18 | $161 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 22 | $153 |
| Propranolol Hcl | 16 | $152 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 17 | $150 |
| Alprazolam | 23 | $130 |
| Clonazepam | 27 | $116 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 16 | $112 |
| Lamotrigine | 14 | $102 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 22 | $81 |
| Lorazepam | 11 | $70 |
| Diazepam | 12 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Norfolk
- Elizabeth WilletteNorfolk$58K
- Deborah QuinnNorfolk$11K
- Corinna BranderNorfolk$9K
- Miriam Galan-DejesusNorfolk$9K
- Ursula PretoriusNorfolk$6K
- Samantha FoxGate City$207K
- Mikel GrayCharlottesville$174K
- Kevin BrigleRichmond$166K
- Denese GomesRichmond$126K
- Ashley CarmenAlexandria$99K
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.