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

Megan Cranston

Physician Assistant, Surgical Fall River, MA Physician Assistant

NPI 1720653405 CMS profile 11066624

1030 President Ave Ste 110, Fall River, MA 02720

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General payments

$3,056

132 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, Megan Cranston of Fall River, MA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,056 across 132 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 90th percentile of Physician Assistant, Surgical 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 $18 1
2024 General $167 4
2023 General $552 12
2022 General $1,634 82
2021 General $685 33

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Megan Cranston were reported at $18. Among 8,152 Physician Assistant, Surgical profiles paid that year, the median was $146 and the middle half received between $51 and $385.

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Year Megan Cranston Physician Assistant, Surgical median Middle half National median
2019 $0 — — $163
2020 $0 — — $114
2021 $685 $111 $36–$285 $132
2022 $1,634 $126 $44–$350 $149
2023 $552 $137 $47–$355 $160
2024 $167 $146 $49–$384 $164
2025 $18 $146 $51–$385 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $850 43 payments
  2. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $400 9 payments
  3. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $364 12 payments
  4. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $296 17 payments
  5. Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. $242 10 payments
  6. Celgene Corporation $209 11 payments
  7. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $184 10 payments
  8. Ardelyx, Inc. $133 2 payments
  9. Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $124 6 payments
  10. RedHill Biopharma Inc. $91 4 payments
  11. Other $164 8 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,056 132 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. LINZESS $441 22 payments
  2. STELARA $400 9 payments
  3. CREON $385 19 payments
  4. XIFAXAN $296 17 payments
  5. CIMZIA $213 9 payments
  6. ZEPOSIA $209 11 payments
  7. TRULANCE $200 10 payments
  8. IBSRELA $133 2 payments
  9. HUMIRA $130 6 payments
  10. Epclusa $125 1 payment
  11. Other $869 44 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 · 18 drugs

Part D claims

733

Median for Physician Assistant: 241

Drug cost

$209,293

Median for Physician Assistant: $4,110

Branded share of claims

26.1%

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
Creon Lipase/Protease/Amylase Brand 14 $54,881
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 86 $54,646
Xifaxan Rifaximin Brand 13 $46,194
Trulance Plecanatide Brand 16 $16,052
Dexlansoprazole Dr Dexlansoprazole Brand 19 $7,887
Movantik Naloxegol Oxalate Brand 17 $6,828
Mesalamine Generic 14 $6,292
Esomeprazole Magnesium Generic 25 $3,584
Lubiprostone Generic 19 $2,508
Colestipol Hcl Generic 34 $2,391

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 18 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 · 10 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$50,683

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

478

Average age 73

Services billed

734

292 women, 186 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 55%
Diabetes 42%
Ischemic heart disease 42%
Depression 39%
Chronic kidney disease 38%
Heart failure 32%
Atrial fibrillation 28%

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

4 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
IBSRELA
  • Ardelyx, Inc. $116
$116 — —
RINVOQ
  • AbbVie, Inc. $21
$21 — —
LINZESS
  • AbbVie, Inc. $15
$15 86 —
CREON
  • AbbVie, Inc. $15
$15 14 —

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.

Records

132 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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