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Industry payments to physicians · North Carolina · 2024

North Carolina

In North Carolina, drug and device makers reported $88M in general payments to 32,992 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,670 each — plus $272M tied to research and $12M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$88M
general payments
32,992
covered recipients paid
$2,670
mean per physician

Top specialties in North Carolina

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $15M
Pediatrics $5M
Neurological Surgery $4M
Physician Assistant $4M
Psychiatry $3M
Interventional Cardiology $3M
Hematology & Oncology $3M
Cardiovascular Disease $2M
Internal Medicine $2M
Surgery $2M
Family $2M
Dermatology $2M

Highest-paid physicians in North Carolina

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Dwight Koeberl Pediatrics · Durham · top payer: Asklepios Biopharmaceutical Inc. $3M
Thomas Fehring Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $2M
Priya Kishnani Pediatrics · Durham · top payer: Asklepios Biopharmaceutical Inc. $2M
Walter Beaver Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte · top payer: Stryker Corporation $1M
Joseph Rubelowsky Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Raleigh · top payer: Paragonix Technologies, Inc. $1M
Robert Anderson Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte · top payer: Stryker Corporation $946,298
Robert Isaacs Neurological Surgery · Durham · top payer: Globus Medical, Inc. $945,996
George Adams Interventional Cardiology · Garner · top payer: CORDIS US CORP. $920,615
Craig Chepke Psychiatry · Huntersville · top payer: Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $825,563
John Masonis Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $779,247
Thomas Vail Orthopaedic Surgery · Durham · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $771,517
John Ellington Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte · top payer: Stryker Corporation $712,498
Mark Reynolds Psychiatry · Durham · top payer: Alkermes, Inc. $675,875
John Mason Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $673,003
Robert Lippitt Urology · Smithfield · top payer: Cook Incorporated $641,436
William Jiranek Orthopaedic Surgery · Durham · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $633,193
David Pollock Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Bermuda Run · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $629,981
Amit Mehta Hematology & Oncology · Cary · top payer: EMD Serono, Inc. $611,781
Jason Gladwell Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Wake Forest · top payer: Align Technology, Inc. $603,257
Gurvinder Deol Orthopaedic Surgery · Raleigh · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $582,561
Christopher Shaffrey Neurological Surgery · Durham · top payer: SI-BONE, Inc. $556,519
Charles Branch Neurological Surgery · Advance · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $499,568
Shelbi Atrash Hematology & Oncology · Charlotte · top payer: Pfizer Inc. $497,017
Michael Morse Hematology & Oncology · Durham · top payer: Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $490,289
Maeve Oconnor Allergy & Immunology · Charlotte · top payer: Consortium of Independent Immunology Clinics, LLC $462,144

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in North Carolina — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.