Hazel Shepherd
Pediatrics · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1770691768
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 204 payments — averaging $16.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alkermes, Inc.$655
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$540
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$371
- AbbVie$279
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$252
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$185
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,362100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alkermes, Inc. | 45 | $655 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 37 | $540 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 22 | $371 |
| AbbVie | 17 | $279 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 17 | $252 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 8 | $185 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $176 |
| Corium, LLC | 6 | $122 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 6 | $114 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $110 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $57 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $53 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 3 | $51 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $22 |
| TMS Neurohealth Centers Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $15 |
| Validus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$3,362 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,818 pediatrics providers in North Carolina.
Other pediatrics in Chapel Hill
- Joseph MuenzerChapel Hill$5.9M
- Maria EscolarChapel Hill$1.3M
- Elizabeth JalazoChapel Hill$615K
- David PedenChapel Hill$348K
- Timothy GershonChapel Hill$59K
- Lauren HerlihyChapel Hill$15K
- Adam ShapiroChapel Hill$11K
- Steven ZeiselChapel Hill$10K
- Jacob LohrChapel Hill$10K
- Matthew LaughonChapel Hill$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.