Eldon Beard, MD
Family Medicine · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1205896883
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 278 payments — averaging $21.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Lilly USA, LLC$1K
- Novo Nordisk$486
- Bayer$405
- Boehringer Ingelheim$322
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$315
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,983100%
- Education$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 62 | $1,424 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 44 | $1,095 |
| Novo Nordisk | 33 | $486 |
| Bayer | 28 | $405 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $322 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $315 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $285 |
| GSK | 15 | $283 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $259 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $177 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $138 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Novartis | 4 | $80 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Merck | 3 | $58 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 4 | $58 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $52 |
| Amgen | 3 | $47 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $47 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $45 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $39 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $31 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $30 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $30 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Astellas Pharma US 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.
How this compares
$5,996 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,444 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 72 | $91,728 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 36 | $52,748 |
| EliquisApixaban | 53 | $41,303 |
| Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin | 19 | $29,395 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 16 | $25,217 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 24 | $25,165 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 12 | $22,750 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 30 | $20,755 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 13 | $17,176 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 19 | $16,958 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 18 | $14,324 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 11 | $8,659 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 19 | $7,359 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 13 | $6,860 |
| Zafirlukast | 64 | $4,584 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $1,095 | $114,47884 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $405 | $52,74836 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Nexium | $1,424 | $45,49056 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $259 | $41,30353 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimSynjardy Xr, Jardiance | $322 | $39,54134 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $283 | $28,11549 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $486 | $17,17613 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $52 | $8,65911 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $138 | $1,37017 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 90th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other family medicine in Winston Salem
- David DundeeWinston Salem$633K
- Cressent PresslyWinston Salem$199K
- Ryan MurrayWinston Salem$133K
- Brian WellsWinston Salem$88K
- Lucian VladWinston Salem$82K
- Barton WilliamsWilmington$17.3M
- Alexander MurrayGreensboro$13M
- Arin PiramzadianJacksonville$13M
- Jonathan WilsonHickory$12.7M
- George RaadCharlotte$7.7M
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.