Cindy Varga, MD
Hematology · Charlotte, NCNPI 1043555139
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $19,811 of the $20,968 with a category attached, or 94.5%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC at 43.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,325, 8.6 times the $1,200 reported in 2021.
Across 30 payments — averaging $698.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$9K
- Janssen Global Services, LLC$5K
- Sanofi$3K
- Legend Biotech USA Inc.$2K
- Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$665
- plus $154 from 2 others
Across 42 payments — averaging $7550.52 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.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$242K
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$52K
- AbbVie$23K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$19,81194%
- Food & beverage$1,1576%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 10 | $9,006 |
| Janssen Global Services, LLC | 3 | $5,298 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $2,634 |
| Legend Biotech USA Inc. | 1 | $2,010 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 1 | $1,200 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $665 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $123 |
| Gilead | 1 | $32 |
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
$20,968 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 65 hematology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| VenclextaVenetoclax | 32 | $398,502 |
| BrukinsaZanubrutinib | 11 | $155,782 |
| EliquisApixaban | 14 | $8,499 |
| Acyclovir | 83 | $944 |
| Dexamethasone | 37 | $804 |
| Gabapentin | 29 | $346 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 18 | $183 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 19 | $149 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 17 | $77 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $123 | $8,49914 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 55th percentile of 65 hematology providers in North Carolina.
Other hematology in Charlotte
- Ryan JacobsCharlotte$1.5M
- Alan Zausner SkarbnikCharlotte$1.1M
- Raymond ThertulienCharlotte$561K
- Ruben MesaCharlotte$384K
- Michael GrunwaldCharlotte$344K
- Nilay ShahCharlotte$228K
- Peter VoorheesCharlotte$157K
- Patricia KropfCharlotte$122K
- Arielle HeekeCharlotte$88K
- Earle BurgessCharlotte$75K
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.