Bhakti Paul, MD
Internal Medicine · Raleigh, NCNPI 1255545190
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 670 payments — averaging $799.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$536K
- Boston Scientific$25
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$15
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$14,2183%
- Speaking & faculty fees$444,21683%
- Travel & lodging$67,32413%
- Food & beverage$10,1502%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 668 | $535,868 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $25 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- FREESTYLE LIBRE 3$315,236
- FreeStyle Libre Pro$155,454
- FreeStyle Libre 2$36,562
- FreeStyle Libre$20,331
- Mitra Clip system$2,273
How this compares
$535,908 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 78 | $98,989 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 45 | $40,686 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 24 | $23,038 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 18 | $20,028 |
| Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro | 14 | $8,158 |
| Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl | 27 | $290 |
| Metformin Hcl | 18 | $81 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Raleigh
- John RubinoRaleigh$13M
- Wayne HarperRaleigh$6.7M
- Clifford CurtisRaleigh$376K
- Manesh PatelDurham$27.2M
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$16.2M
- Christina KennellyCharlotte$15.4M
- Adam DevoreDurham$11.8M
- Krishnakumar UdayakumarDurham$11M
- Sylvia ShoffnerCary$7.1M
- Joseph MoranStatesville$6.7M
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.