Arlene Soberano, MD
Infectious Disease · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1750470456
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (54.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gen-probe Sales & Service, Inc. at 34.2% of the total. Among infectious disease clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 29 payments — averaging $669.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gen-probe Sales & Service, Inc.$7K
- Gen-probe, Inc.$5K
- Lupin Inc.$2K
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$2K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$2K
- Modernatx, Inc.$2K
Across 28 payments — averaging $1600.18 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Modernatx, Inc.$22K
- GSK$16K
- Gen-probe, Inc.$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,66655%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,6088%
- Travel & lodging$5,40628%
- Food & beverage$1,7409%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gen-probe Sales & Service, Inc. | 5 | $6,633 |
| Gen-probe, Inc. | 2 | $4,745 |
| Lupin Inc. | 10 | $2,352 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 4 | $2,244 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $1,830 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 4 | $1,615 |
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.
- Aptima$5,305
- SOLOSEC$1,960
- Aptima M genitalium$613
How this compares
$19,419 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 250 infectious disease providers in North Carolina.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fosfomycin Tromethamine | 18 | $10,186 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other infectious disease in Chapel Hill
- David WohlChapel Hill$726K
- Joseph EronChapel Hill$195K
- David van DuinChapel Hill$67K
- Adaora AdimoraChapel Hill$52K
- Myron CohenChapel Hill$40K
- David MargolisChapel Hill$36K
- Michelle Floris MooreChapel Hill$23K
- Sarah RutsteinChapel Hill$8K
- Lisa Hightow-WeidmanChapel Hill$3K
- Anna Rosengren-HoveeChapel Hill$3K
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.