Has Andrew Sumich, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $181,032 in general payments to Andrew Sumich, MD across 328 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Andrew Sumich, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Andrew Sumich, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Andrew Sumich, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Charlotte, NCNPI 1285609719

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $135,700 of the $181,032 with a category attached, or 75.0%. Relievant Medsystems, Inc. accounts for 70.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $55,712 and has fallen 69.7% since, to $16,901 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$181,032in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 328 payments — averaging $551.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$128K
Boston Scientific$45K
Medtronic$9K
Amgen$118
Johnson & Johnson$58
Vertos Medical, Inc.$18

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$8,3125%
Consulting fees$16,7009%
Speaking & faculty fees$135,70075%
Travel & lodging$11,4026%
Food & beverage$8,9185%

General payments by program year

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	175	$127,617
Boston Scientific	143	$44,503
Medtronic(2 entities)	7	$8,717
Amgen	1	$118
Johnson & Johnson	1	$58
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$18

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$181,032 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 269 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$357,248

Medicare patients

622

Services billed

6,985

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	205	$3,210
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	86	$2,249
Gabapentin	181	$1,370
Methylprednisolone	131	$764
Tramadol Hcl	137	$698
Tizanidine Hcl	60	$466
Pregabalin	19	$361
Diclofenac Sodium	53	$322
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	37	$297
Ibuprofen	23	$222
Methocarbamol	38	$198
Oxycodone Hcl	17	$117
Meloxicam	48	$112
Diazepam	29	$26

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Charlotte

Peter BaileyCharlotte$10K
Usman AhmadCharlotte$8K
Sharon KanelosCharlotte$5K
Michael DoveCharlotte$4K
Puneet AggarwalCharlotte$2K
Kelly CrawfordCharlotte$2K
Patrick O BrienRaleigh$86K
Elizabeth BagsbyGreenville$33K
Krishna BhatSanford$30K
Jasbir DhaliwalSanford$23K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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