Vern Klahn
Physician Assistant · Hickory, NCNPI 1770765000
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 91 payments — averaging $22.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$333
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$281
- Johnson & Johnson$249
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$215
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$213
- Alkermes, Inc.$178
- plus $575 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,91194%
- Education$1326%
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 | 18 | $333 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 15 | $281 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $249 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 6 | $215 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $213 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 4 | $178 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $94 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $56 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $23 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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
$2,044 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,441 physician assistant providers in North Carolina.
Other physician assistant in Hickory
- Sarah PadgettHickory$29K
- Jo HughesGreensboro$814K
- Rachel HolzhauerCharlotte$739K
- Amber BlairCharlotte$551K
- Benjamin EpsteinDavidson$447K
- Rebecca KrausDavidson$425K
- Brooke JonesGoldsboro$259K
- Philip ReasbeckWilson$180K
- Katherine SchultzHuntersville$164K
- Kristin CabedaCharlotte$135K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.