Ghiath Almasri
Internal Medicine · Greenville, NCNPI 1851396857
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 178 payments — averaging $14.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$489
- AstraZeneca$261
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$195
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$191
- Pfizer$175
- Johnson & Johnson$158
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,624100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 32 | $489 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 16 | $261 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 19 | $195 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $191 |
| Pfizer | 25 | $175 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $158 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $148 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $144 |
| G1 Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 7 | $120 |
| Merck | 8 | $106 |
| Bayer | 6 | $94 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $88 |
| Amgen | 4 | $60 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $52 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- COSELA$123
How this compares
$2,624 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Greenville
- Manesh PatelDurham$27.2M
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$16.2M
- Christina KennellyCharlotte$15.4M
- John RubinoRaleigh$13M
- Adam DevoreDurham$11.8M
- Krishnakumar UdayakumarDurham$11M
- Sylvia ShoffnerCary$7.1M
- Wayne HarperRaleigh$6.7M
- Joseph MoranStatesville$6.7M
- April SalamaDurham$6.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.