Heather Favorito
Rheumatology · Wilmington, NCNPI 1306199674
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,940 of the $8,992 with a category attached, or 77.2%. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by UCB, Inc. at 24.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,818 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $343 in 2025.
Across 386 payments — averaging $23.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- UCB, Inc.$2K
- Amgen$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$924
- Pfizer$649
- Johnson & Johnson$270
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$400%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,01222%
- Food & beverage$6,94077%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| UCB, Inc. | 19 | $2,241 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 111 | $1,772 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 49 | $1,188 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 28 | $924 |
| Pfizer | 75 | $649 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 20 | $270 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 13 | $266 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $232 |
| Novartis | 11 | $211 |
| GSK | 8 | $153 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $141 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 8 | $126 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Merck | 1 | $99 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 6 | $98 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $76 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $61 |
| Medexus Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $49 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $43 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $31 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $27 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $12 |
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
$8,992 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 210 rheumatology providers in North Carolina.
Other rheumatology in Wilmington
- Wendy SimmonsWilmington$462K
- Mark HarrisWilmington$22K
- Ronald GeorgeWilmington$19K
- Gordon LamCharlotte$2.7M
- Ralph SnydermanDurham$1.3M
- Andrew LasterCharlotte$421K
- Ana RossRaleigh$417K
- Gwenesta MeltonFayetteville$410K
- Joseph ShanahanDurham$407K
- Jill ZouzoulasCharlotte$377K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.