Who Paid My Doc
James Kovach
Physician Assistant Wilson, NC Physician Assistant
NPI 1588700165 CMS profile 10551982
1803 Forest Hills Rd W, Wilson, NC 27893
General payments
$59,143
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, James Kovach of Wilson, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $59,143 across 27 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 99th 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 | $58,919 | 16 | |
| 2024 | General | $27 | 2 | |
| 2023 | General | $45 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $68 | 3 | |
| 2021 | General | $84 | 4 |
Beside peers
- James Kovach
- Physician Assistant median
- Middle half of Physician Assistant
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to James Kovach were reported at $58,919. Among 68,903 Physician Assistant profiles paid that year, the median was $184 and the middle half received between $57 and $620.
Show as a table
| Year | James Kovach | Physician Assistant median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $34 | $17–$122 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $33 | $16–$78 | $114 |
| 2021 | $84 | $132 | $37–$438 | $132 |
| 2022 | $68 | $155 | $48–$522 | $149 |
| 2023 | $45 | $167 | $52–$557 | $160 |
| 2024 | $27 | $178 | $55–$600 | $164 |
| 2025 | $58,919 | $184 | $57–$620 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 10 drugsPart D claims
801
Drug cost
$4,337
Branded share of claims
6.2%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | Generic | 152 | $951 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 99 | $915 | |
| Tramadol Hcl | Generic | 186 | $456 | |
| Meloxicam | Generic | 127 | $409 | |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 50 | $371 | |
| Tizanidine Hcl | Generic | 41 | $346 | |
| Baclofen | Generic | 86 | $294 | |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | Generic | 32 | $276 | |
| Celecoxib | Generic | 15 | $223 | |
| Naproxen | Generic | 13 | $96 |
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 · 54 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$98,338
Medicare patients
511
Services billed
14,123
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 66% | |
| Diabetes | 37% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 22% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 20% | |
| Osteoporosis | 20% | |
| Depression | 18% | |
| COPD | 17% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyaluronan or derivative, orthovisc, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7324 | Office | 16 | 68 | $6,735 |
| Hyaluronan or derivative, gelsyn-3, for intra-articular injection, 0.1 mg J7328 | Office | 17 | 9,744 | $4,080 |
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 | Office | 253 | 2,036 | $1,431 |
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.
Records
27 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.