Donald Bias
Family Medicine · Lincolnton, NCNPI 1174517221
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 117 payments — averaging $22.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$1K
- Pfizer$409
- Novo Nordisk$238
- Lilly USA, LLC$125
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$95
- AbbVie$82
- plus $513 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,491100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 6 | $1,207 |
| Pfizer | 42 | $409 |
| Novo Nordisk | 18 | $238 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $125 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $95 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $82 |
| Eisai Inc. | 6 | $80 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $74 |
| Amgen | 4 | $67 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $67 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $51 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $32 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$2,669 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other family medicine in Lincolnton
- Barton WilliamsWilmington$17.3M
- Alexander MurrayGreensboro$13M
- Arin PiramzadianJacksonville$13M
- Jonathan WilsonHickory$12.7M
- George RaadCharlotte$7.7M
- Cecil FarringtonSalisbury$6.4M
- Christian MartinShelby$5.4M
- John EarlHickory$4.7M
- Patrick MorganteHavelock$4.6M
- Stephen JonesShelby$4.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.