Dwan Varner
Hospitalist · Greenville, NCNPI 1538352711
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $55,500 of the $58,896 with a category attached, or 94.2%. ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $21,162 and has fallen 76.7% since, to $4,924 in 2025. Among hospitalist clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 165 payments — averaging $356.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$59K
- Johnson & Johnson$230
- Novartis$24
- Amgen$22
- RARE Disease Therapeutics, Inc.$20
- Merck$18
- plus $13 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$55,50094%
- Food & beverage$3,3966%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 144 | $58,569 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $230 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $22 |
| RARE Disease Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| CSL Behring | 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.
- LifeVest$55,730
How this compares
$58,896 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 879 hospitalist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 29 | $337 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 16 | $290 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 13 | $137 |
| Prednisone | 16 | $52 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 11 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Greenville
- Neha DoctorGreenville$6K
- Mahesh ChandrasekharWinston Salem$86K
- Honnie SpencerSalisbury$50K
- Ria DancelChapel Hill$13K
- Javad MonzavifarCharlotte$12K
- Bikki GautamCharlotte$12K
- Jorge PaulinoCharlotte$12K
- Emmett StewardCharlotte$11K
- Stephan HewittGastonia$11K
- Juan Velasco-TrujilloMatthews$11K
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.