RxDoctor Payments Data

Amal Elhaj, MD

Neurology · Belmont, NCNPI 1144647041

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,899in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 253 payments — averaging $15.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$552
  • AbbVie$399
  • EMD Serono, Inc.$250
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$246
  • UCB, Inc.$244
  • Biogen$175
  • plus $2K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$221%
  • Food & beverage$3,87899%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

How this compares

$3,899 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 566 neurology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$21,391
Medicare patients
85
Services billed
135

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate16$41,269
BriviactBrivaracetam18$37,992
Lacosamide43$11,870
Levetiracetam145$4,196
Memantine Hcl125$2,916
Levetiracetam ErLevetiracetam50$2,708
Pregabalin43$1,030
Donepezil Hcl106$986
Lamotrigine48$916
Gabapentin69$806
Oxcarbazepine13$749
RivastigmineRivastigmine Tartrate17$733
Phenobarbital14$488
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa25$478
Divalproex Sodium18$302

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.Aptiom$111$41,26916 claims
UCB, Inc.Briviact$244$37,99218 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 566 neurology providers in North Carolina.

Other neurology in Belmont

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