Physician Assistant Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Heather Matthews

Physician Assistant Kinston, NC Physician Assistant

NPI 1477538098 CMS profile 10525069

701 Doctors Dr, Suite N, Kinston, NC 28501

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General payments

$6,418

408 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Heather Matthews of Kinston, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,418 across 408 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 94th percentile of Physician Assistant profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,158 62
2024 General $1,646 97
2023 General $1,250 81
2022 General $1,167 81
2021 General $1,196 87

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Heather Matthews
  • Physician Assistant median
  • Middle half of Physician Assistant
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Heather Matthews were reported at $1,158. Among 68,903 Physician Assistant profiles paid that year, the median was $184 and the middle half received between $57 and $620.

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Year Heather Matthews Physician Assistant median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $34 $17–$122 $163
2020 $0 $33 $16–$78 $114
2021 $1,196 $132 $37–$438 $132
2022 $1,167 $155 $48–$522 $149
2023 $1,250 $167 $52–$557 $160
2024 $1,646 $178 $55–$600 $164
2025 $1,158 $184 $57–$620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $883 60 payments
  2. Novo Nordisk Inc $817 57 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $692 49 payments
  4. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $539 33 payments
  5. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $477 19 payments
  6. Amgen Inc. $324 25 payments
  7. AbbVie, Inc. $229 13 payments
  8. Lilly USA, LLC $222 15 payments
  9. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $202 14 payments
  10. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $199 9 payments
  11. Other $1,834 114 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,418 408 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. TRELEGY ELLIPTA $770 54 payments
  2. Ozempic $607 43 payments
  3. RYBELSUS $579 42 payments
  4. Kerendia $539 33 payments
  5. LEQVIO $497 36 payments
  6. AIRSUPRA $312 8 payments
  7. FARXIGA $245 5 payments
  8. ENTRESTO $226 16 payments
  9. REXULTI $199 9 payments
  10. EVENITY $179 14 payments
  11. Other $4,401 279 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 104 drugs

Part D claims

5,030

Median for Physician Assistant: 241

Drug cost

$297,831

Median for Physician Assistant: $4,110

Branded share of claims

20.3%

Median for Physician Assistant: 19.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 128 $107,366
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 28 $36,056
Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter Brand 50 $34,329
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 26 $26,335
Trintellix Vortioxetine Hydrobromide Brand 24 $11,709
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 18 $9,935
Anoro Ellipta Umeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr Brand 17 $8,176
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 11 $7,559
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 12 $6,851
Premarin Estrogens, Conjugated Brand 18 $5,289

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 104 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 114,276 Part D prescribers listed as Physician Assistant; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 98 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$63,768

Of which drugs: $3,411

Medicare patients

128

Average age 68

Services billed

2,129

104 women, 24 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 45%
Diabetes 29%
Depression 26%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
Chronic kidney disease 15%
Heart failure 12%
Atrial fibrillation 12%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle 90662 Office 12 13 $902

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 27 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $228
$228 — —
Kerendia
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $205
$205 — —
AIRSUPRA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $141
$141 — —
TRELEGY ELLIPTA
  • GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $124
$124 50 —
REXULTI
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $96
$96 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

408 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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