Has Carl Phipps, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $998 in general payments to Carl Phipps, MD across 21 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 Carl Phipps, 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 Carl Phipps, 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.

Carl Phipps, MD

Otolaryngology · High Point, NCNPI 1730107020

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $625 of the $998 with a category attached, or 62.7%. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. accounts for 64.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $712 and has fallen 84.5% since, to $110 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for otolaryngology clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $856.

$998in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $47.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$642
Optinose US, Inc.$72
Amgen$51
Sanofi$47
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$44
Aytu Biopharma, Inc.$34
plus $108 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$62563%
Food & beverage$37337%

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
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$642
Optinose US, Inc.	4	$72
Amgen	2	$51
Sanofi	2	$47
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$44
Aytu Biopharma, Inc.	2	$34
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america	1	$28
Stryker	2	$27
GSK	1	$16
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$14
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$12
Intersect ENT, Inc.	1	$11

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.

Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$625

How this compares

$998 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 362 otolaryngology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$109,264

Medicare patients

529

Services billed

1,403

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
Dupixent PenDupilumab	11	$40,999
Ipratropium Bromide	48	$1,459
Mometasone Furoate	16	$926
Ofloxacin	27	$720
Fluticasone Propionate	34	$421
Mupirocin	26	$314
Cefdinir	16	$234
Azelastine Hcl	13	$163
Prednisone	27	$130
Montelukast Sodium	12	$125
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	15	$114
Cephalexin	14	$93

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in High Point

David JangDurham$324K
Robert FerrisRaleigh$258K
Adam ZanationHickory$227K
Brent SeniorChapel Hill$91K
Charles EbertChapel Hill$57K
Adam CampbellWinston Salem$47K
Harold PillsburyChapel Hill$42K
John BuentingSylva$30K
Brendan O ConnellCharlotte$28K
Nicholas ThompsonChapel Hill$24K

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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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