Valerie Evans, MD
Family Medicine · Meridian, MSNPI 1396980116
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 161 payments — averaging $19.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$639
- AbbVie$634
- AstraZeneca$323
- Lilly USA, LLC$302
- Pfizer$205
- Novo Nordisk$163
- plus $804 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,070100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 29 | $639 |
| AbbVie | 43 | $634 |
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $323 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $302 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $205 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $163 |
| GSK | 7 | $114 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Bayer | 7 | $100 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $61 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $61 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $55 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $51 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Novartis | 2 | $35 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Merck | 1 | $28 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 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.
- FARXIGA$118
- NURTEC ODT$103
- Ozempic$103
How this compares
$3,070 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 971 family medicine providers in Mississippi.
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 | 165 | $226,681 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 73 | $72,878 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 66 | $64,045 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 60 | $62,517 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 53 | $57,500 |
| Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 51 | $46,856 |
| EliquisApixaban | 49 | $42,789 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 27 | $35,786 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 22 | $28,586 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 24 | $28,273 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 17 | $18,485 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 18 | $17,456 |
| Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin | 20 | $15,434 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 22 | $11,842 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 13 | $10,937 |
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, Rybelsus | $163 | $262,467192 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet Xr | $28 | $109,374111 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr, Tradjenta | $14 | $102,301103 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $323 | $64,04566 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $634 | $59,16084 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $302 | $56,85946 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $205 | $42,78949 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta | $114 | $8,98716 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus | $15 | $3,23616 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 75th percentile of 971 family medicine providers in Mississippi.
Other family medicine in Meridian
- Douglas PhillipsMeridian$11K
- Shawn AndersonMeridian$10K
- Paul MatherneGulfport$14.4M
- Timothy QuinnRidgeland$8M
- Sean KerbyGulfport$6.6M
- Rambod RouhbakhshHattiesburg$6M
- Randall HulingOlive Branch$4.6M
- Demetri MarshallPort Gibson$3M
- Alexander OsowaJackson$2.2M
- Russell CarlisleWesson$1.6M
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.