Eric Raasch, MD
Nephrology · Raleigh, NCNPI 1700971173
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 257 payments — averaging $53.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$9K
- Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$764
- Amgen$723
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$572
- AstraZeneca$528
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$510
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,89998%
- Education$1052%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 1 | $8,850 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 37 | $764 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 34 | $723 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 31 | $572 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 30 | $528 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 22 | $510 |
| Bayer | 15 | $281 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 15 | $270 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 14 | $247 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 7 | $170 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $122 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 7 | $118 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 6 | $110 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $109 |
| GSK | 5 | $87 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $67 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $50 |
| Novartis | 2 | $43 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $41 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Abbott | 1 | $29 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
$13,853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 366 nephrology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide | 69 | $199,594 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 17 | $17,527 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 20 | $17,435 |
| LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate | 15 | $6,081 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 12 | $5,614 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 19 | $1,600 |
| Bumetanide | 26 | $1,473 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 11 | $976 |
| Torsemide | 28 | $950 |
| Humulin N KwikpenInsulin Nph Human Isophane | 11 | $888 |
| Losartan Potassium | 70 | $834 |
| Allopurinol | 65 | $427 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 29 | $408 |
| Furosemide | 94 | $357 |
| Carvedilol | 24 | $185 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro | $764 | $199,59469 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $109 | $23,04932 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $67 | $17,52717 claims |
| AstraZenecaLokelma | $528 | $6,08115 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 80th percentile of 366 nephrology providers in North Carolina.
Other nephrology in Raleigh
- Michael CaseyRaleigh$559K
- Jeffrey HoggardRaleigh$517K
- Sammy MoghaziRaleigh$56K
- Libbie McKenzieRaleigh$34K
- Daniel EdmonstonDurham$9.9M
- Gregory GreenwoodWinston-Salem$4.1M
- Barry FreedmanWinston Salem$3.5M
- Manuel MonteroNew Bern$2.5M
- Rekha JohnKinston$2.3M
- Nauman ShahidGreenville$2M
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.