Karin Giordano, MD
Medical Oncology · Mount Airy, NCNPI 1356315113
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 21 payments — averaging $17.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$76
- Gilead$41
- Array Biopharma Inc$40
- AstraZeneca$40
- Bristol Myers Squibb$34
- Eisai Inc.$27
- plus $113 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$36096%
- Education$134%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $76 |
| Gilead(2 entities) | 2 | $41 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 2 | $40 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $40 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $34 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$373 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 170 medical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CabometyxCabozantinib S-Malate | 18 | $524,289 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 29 | $424,089 |
| IclusigPonatinib Hcl | 12 | $257,830 |
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 12 | $166,536 |
| EliquisApixaban | 113 | $72,631 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 27 | $48,806 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 19 | $11,372 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 48 | $3,339 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 58 | $1,326 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 73 | $814 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 63 | $768 |
| Potassium Chloride | 80 | $703 |
| Dexamethasone | 28 | $474 |
| Hydroxyurea | 31 | $384 |
| Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine | 21 | $279 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Exelixis Inc.Cabometyx | $16 | $524,28918 claims |
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $34 | $424,08929 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCVerzenio | $22 | $166,53612 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $15 | $72,631113 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $12 | $11,37219 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 20th percentile of 170 medical oncology providers in North Carolina.
Other medical oncology in Mount Airy
- John StricklerDurham$23.5M
- Carey AndersChapel Hill$20.5M
- Antoinette TanCharlotte$14.9M
- Andrew ArmstrongDurham$8.6M
- Jeffrey ClarkeDurham$7.7M
- Neal ReadyDurham$6.7M
- Nilanjan GhoshCharlotte$6.3M
- Thomas StinchcombeChapel Hill$5.4M
- Kathryn MilehamCharlotte$4.7M
- Niharika MettuDurham$3.7M
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.