Nurse Practitioner Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Sheri Couch

Nurse Practitioner Forest City, NC Nurse Practitioner

NPI 1598209553 CMS profile 10460527

249 Oak St, Forest City, NC 28043

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General payments

$3,503

151 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, Sheri Couch of Forest City, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,503 across 151 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 88th percentile of Nurse Practitioner 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 $1,805 54
2024 General $746 34
2023 General $703 45
2022 General $229 17
2021 General $19 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Sheri Couch
  • Nurse Practitioner median
  • Middle half of Nurse Practitioner
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Sheri Couch were reported at $1,805. Among 41,044 Nurse Practitioner profiles paid that year, the median was $174 and the middle half received between $55 and $557.

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Year Sheri Couch Nurse Practitioner median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $50 $22–$97 $163
2020 $0 $40 $16–$108 $114
2021 $19 $135 $40–$426 $132
2022 $229 $152 $48–$470 $149
2023 $703 $166 $54–$529 $160
2024 $746 $173 $55–$556 $164
2025 $1,805 $174 $55–$557 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Forte Bio-Pharma LLC $1,302 54 payments
  2. Protega Pharmaceutials LLC $958 16 payments
  3. Uswm, LLC $509 43 payments
  4. AbbVie, Inc. $312 15 payments
  5. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $206 12 payments
  6. Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC $112 5 payments
  7. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $36 2 payments
  8. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $32 2 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $20 1 payment
  10. Averitas Pharma Inc. $16 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,065 150 payments
  2. Honoraria $438 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. PROLATE Pain $1,302 54 payments
  2. PROLATE Pain $1,302 54 payments
  3. PROLATE Pain $1,302 54 payments
  4. NALOCET $1,302 54 payments
  5. ROXYBOND $958 16 payments
  6. PROLATE Pain $713 30 payments
  7. TANLOR $589 24 payments
  8. Lucemyra $509 43 payments
  9. ZIMHI $399 36 payments
  10. VIBERZI $219 9 payments
  11. Other $826 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 · 41 drugs

Part D claims

6,172

Median for Nurse Practitioner: 389

Drug cost

$875,630

Median for Nurse Practitioner: $21,885

Branded share of claims

36.5%

Median for Nurse Practitioner: 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
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 1,250 $491,389
Lucemyra Lofexidine Hcl Brand 34 $114,542
Lofexidine Hcl Generic 32 $58,130
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 80 $42,154
Xtampza Er Oxycodone Myristate Brand 51 $37,775
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 1,363 $30,884
Methocarbamol Generic 36 $20,661
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 606 $18,326
Nucynta Tapentadol Hcl Brand 13 $13,706
Buprenorphine-Naloxone Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl Brand 68 $10,848

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 41 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 229,976 Part D prescribers listed as Nurse Practitioner; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 14 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$60,604

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

113

Average age 65

Services billed

1,232

54 women, 59 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 65%
Diabetes 38%
COPD 36%
Depression 36%
Ischemic heart disease 24%
Chronic kidney disease 21%
Heart failure 18%

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 7 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
PROLATE
  • Forte Bio-Pharma LLC $281
$281 — —
BELBUCA
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $136
$136 — —
ROXYBOND
  • PROTEGA PHARMACEUTIALS LLC $82
$82 — —
NALOCET
  • Forte Bio-Pharma LLC $70
$70 — —
Lucemyra
  • USWM, LLC $68
$68 34 —

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

151 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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