Joseph Sivak, MD
Internal Medicine · Eden, NCNPI 1902040470
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 30 payments — averaging $98.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$537
- Heartflow, Inc.$485
- Abbott$156
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$131
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$87
- plus $29 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2007%
- Travel & lodging$96432%
- Food & beverage$1,80561%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 14 | $1,544 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $537 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 4 | $485 |
| Abbott | 1 | $156 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $131 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $29 |
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.
- PASCAL$992
- FFRct$263
- WATCHMAN Access System$139
- LifeVest$131
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$122
- WATCHMAN FLX$119
- Watchman$112
How this compares
$2,970 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 45 | $46,162 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 27 | $23,457 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 13 | $13,726 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 49 | $818 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 39 | $467 |
| Spironolactone | 22 | $244 |
| Carvedilol | 29 | $197 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 14 | $130 |
| Losartan Potassium | 14 | $97 |
| Lisinopril | 19 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Eden
- Manesh PatelDurham$27.2M
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$16.2M
- Christina KennellyCharlotte$15.4M
- John RubinoRaleigh$13M
- Adam DevoreDurham$11.8M
- Krishnakumar UdayakumarDurham$11M
- Sylvia ShoffnerCary$7.1M
- Wayne HarperRaleigh$6.7M
- Joseph MoranStatesville$6.7M
- April SalamaDurham$6.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.