Arielle Lankford
Pediatrics · Franklin, NCNPI 1659702116
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 76 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $607 and has fallen 75.7% since, to $148 in 2025.
Across 76 payments — averaging $17.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$278
- Novo Nordisk$269
- Amgen$217
- Johnson & Johnson$146
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$59
- Bayer$50
- plus $346 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,366100%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $278 |
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $269 |
| Amgen | 14 | $217 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $146 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Bayer | 3 | $50 |
| Abbott | 2 | $46 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $39 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $34 |
| Merck | 2 | $33 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $33 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $31 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $22 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Organon | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,366 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,818 pediatrics providers in North Carolina.
Other pediatrics in Franklin
- Dwight KoeberlDurham$8.4M
- Priya KishnaniDurham$5.8M
- James AndersonHigh Point$669K
- Joseph MuenzerChapel Hill$237K
- Ifeyinwa OsunkwoCharlotte$218K
- Edward SmithDurham$164K
- Katherine SmithRaleigh$133K
- James StillRaleigh$105K
- Richard BrugmanGastonia$73K
- Daniel LandiDurham$70K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.