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Cordelia Stearns

Internal Medicine · Boone, NCNPI 1265721872

Payments from drug & device makers

$619in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $24.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$193
  • Janssen Products, LP$100
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$94
  • Dexcom, Inc.$60
  • AbbVie$31
  • Indivior Inc.$27
  • plus $115 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$50682%
  • Education$10016%
  • Entertainment$132%

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

19
22
23
24
25

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.

How this compares

$619 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$981
Medicare patients
33
Services billed
88

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala17$70,045
OzempicSemaglutide28$36,235
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine12$35,005
EliquisApixaban22$24,078
JardianceEmpagliflozin16$12,288
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr22$12,258
MyrbetriqMirabegron14$9,032
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter13$8,122
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate11$3,671
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog21$2,264
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate54$2,208
Candesartan Cilexetil39$1,922
Gabapentin110$1,584
Esomeprazole Magnesium15$1,532
Levothyroxine Sodium128$972

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
GileadBiktarvy$193$70,04517 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$15$36,23528 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyDovato$94$35,00512 claims
GSKAnoro Ellipta, Trelegy Ellipta$17$20,38035 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$18$3,67111 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 65th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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