Candace Barber, NP
Acute Care · Wilmington, NCNPI 1437856259
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,726 of the $3,461 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Boston Scientific accounts for 71.2% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,816, 3.9 times the $469 reported in 2023. Among acute care 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 116 payments — averaging $29.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$287
- Inari Medical, Inc.$176
- Abiomed$133
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$121
- Johnson & Johnson$115
- plus $164 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$72521%
- Food & beverage$2,72679%
- Education$100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 99 | $2,465 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $287 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $176 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $133 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $121 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $115 |
| Abbott | 3 | $55 |
| Stryker | 1 | $32 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $19 |
| BD | 1 | $17 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
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
$3,461 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 312 acute care 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.
Other acute care in Wilmington
- Darryl HamptonWilmington$3K
- Benjamin HocuttGreenville$25K
- Matthew KuhnPinehurst$16K
- Robin TruppApex$14K
- Suzanne HartmannRaleigh$12K
- Leigh CasperSalisbury$12K
- Juliana QuagraineCharlotte$11K
- Sarah GroceGreensboro$10K
- Lauren CowellNew Bern$10K
- Erica TaylorPinehurst$8K
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.