James Groce
Psychiatry · Smithfield, NCNPI 1811090566
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 186 payments — averaging $65.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$8K
- USWM, LLC$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$657
- Alkermes, Inc.$586
- AbbVie$494
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$432
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,60054%
- Travel & lodging$6615%
- Food & beverage$3,90932%
- Education$290%
- Gifts$1,0138%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 14 | $7,753 |
| USWM, LLC | 6 | $1,078 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 30 | $657 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 31 | $586 |
| AbbVie | 28 | $494 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 26 | $432 |
| Indivior Inc. | 13 | $348 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 7 | $198 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 8 | $171 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $134 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $120 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 4 | $90 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Luye Pharma (USA) Ltd. | 1 | $19 |
| Gilead | 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.
- ANDEXXA$7,733
- ZIMHI$1,013
- ARISTADA$460
- ARISTADA INITIO$115
How this compares
$12,212 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,108 psychiatry providers in North Carolina.
Other psychiatry in Smithfield
- Craig ChepkeHuntersville$4.1M
- James BarkerHickory$4.1M
- Mark ReynoldsDurham$3.2M
- Oleg TcheremissineCharlotte$2M
- Richard WeislerRaleigh$1.2M
- Dan BlazerDurham$1M
- Samantha Meltzer-BrodyChapel Hill$909K
- Andrew KrystalDurham$754K
- Brian FarahWinston Salem$605K
- Krishna TalluriMorrisville$591K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.