Ghiath Almasri
Internal Medicine · Greenville, NCNPI 1851396857
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 178 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,055 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $15 in 2024.
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 85th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Greenville
- Nirmish ShahDurham$862K
- Eugene WrightFayetteville$839K
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$551K
- Bhakti PaulRaleigh$536K
- Mary KlotmanDurham$478K
- Manesh PatelDurham$435K
- Millie LongChapel Hill$374K
- Marc JohnsonCharlotte$342K
- Christina CraterRaleigh$330K
- Jamy ArdWinston Salem$293K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.