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

William Carlson

Physician Assistant Cleveland, NC Physician Assistant

NPI 1396766721 CMS profile 10563150

11711 Statesville Blvd, Cleveland, NC 27013

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General payments

$10,498

648 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, William Carlson of Cleveland, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $10,498 across 648 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 97th 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 $1,647 94
2024 General $1,652 97
2023 General $1,806 114
2022 General $2,756 164
2021 General $2,636 179

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to William Carlson were reported at $1,647. 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 William Carlson Physician Assistant median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $34 $17–$122 $163
2020 $0 $33 $16–$78 $114
2021 $2,636 $132 $37–$438 $132
2022 $2,756 $155 $48–$522 $149
2023 $1,806 $167 $52–$557 $160
2024 $1,652 $178 $55–$600 $164
2025 $1,647 $184 $57–$620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $1,303 112 payments
  2. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $1,267 70 payments
  3. AbbVie, Inc. $1,012 56 payments
  4. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $712 43 payments
  5. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $520 36 payments
  6. ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $519 33 payments
  7. UCB, Inc. $466 35 payments
  8. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $406 20 payments
  9. Nevro Corp. $285 4 payments
  10. Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC $281 23 payments
  11. Other $3,727 216 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $10,459 639 payments
  2. Education $25 8 payments
  3. Entertainment $13 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. RELISTOR Gastroenterology $682 40 payments
  2. UBRELVY $663 41 payments
  3. Enbrel $639 66 payments
  4. XTAMPZA $631 39 payments
  5. RELISTOR Gastroenterology $600 31 payments
  6. QULIPTA $572 22 payments
  7. COSENTYX $520 36 payments
  8. Otezla $474 43 payments
  9. NURTEC ODT $350 16 payments
  10. Cimzia $314 27 payments
  11. Other $6,676 380 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 · 47 drugs

Part D claims

5,896

Median for Physician Assistant: 241

Drug cost

$618,515

Median for Physician Assistant: $4,110

Branded share of claims

38.1%

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
Xtampza Er Oxycodone Myristate Brand 217 $135,354
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 593 $87,118
Levorphanol Tartrate Generic 12 $64,875
Oxycontin Oxycodone Hcl Brand 61 $43,326
Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate Brand 21 $37,618
Belbuca Buprenorphine Hcl Brand 47 $36,411
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 1,112 $25,862
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 725 $23,332
Ubrelvy Ubrogepant Brand 15 $21,575
Ztlido Lidocaine Brand 19 $13,016

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 47 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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 20 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
COSENTYX
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $241
$241 — —
Enbrel
  • Amgen Inc. $180
$181 — —
PURIFIED CORTROPHIN GEL
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $144
$144 — —
Cimzia
  • UCB, Inc. $105
$105 — —
XTAMPZA
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $83
$83 217 —

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

648 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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