John Earl
Family Medicine · Hickory, NCNPI 1568490001
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by gifts: $20 of the $20 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Pfizer. That places this record below the midpoint for family medicine clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $275.
Across 1 payment — averaging $20.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$20
Across 788 payments — averaging $6021.70 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$3.2M
- GSK$778K
- Novo Nordisk AS$242K
- Regeneron$223K
- AstraZeneca$111K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$47K
- plus $157K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Gifts$20100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
How this compares
$20 in reported general payments places this provider in the 5th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other family medicine in Hickory
- William CromwellRaleigh$879K
- Steve VacalisGastonia$693K
- David DundeeWinston Salem$633K
- Kevin SodenCharlotte$558K
- Brian ForrestApex$398K
- Joseph KonenCharlotte$322K
- Richard RachimaCharlotte$294K
- Dimitrios HondrosCharlotte$275K
- Domingo Rodriguez-CueGarner$253K
- Christopher ChaoCary$201K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.