RxDoctor Payments Data

Kwadwo Gyarteng-Dakwa, MD

Pain Medicine · Durham, NCNPI 1285679845

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,820in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $36.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Curonix LLC$1K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$238
  • USWM, LLC$199
  • Abbott$151
  • Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$148
  • Boston Scientific$135
  • plus $632 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$90432%
  • Food & beverage$1,69360%
  • Education$2228%

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

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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.

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

$2,820 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 182 pain medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$318,428
Medicare patients
112
Services billed
2,828

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
ZtlidoLidocaine88$95,146
RelistorMethylnaltrexone Bromide33$85,769
PercocetOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen13$83,132
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl1,173$75,528
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl54$73,622
Oxycodone Hcl2,465$54,464
AzescoPrenatal 147/Iron/Folic Acid30$46,247
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen1,077$41,709
LinzessLinaclotide71$39,120
Norgesic ForteOrphenadrine/Aspirin/Caffeine20$38,502
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl190$35,469
SuboxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl45$34,057
Diclofenac Potassium517$27,444
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate25$26,411
LofenaDiclofenac Potassium14$21,653

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido$69$95,14688 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCRelistor$238$85,76933 claims
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Xtampza Er$67$26,41125 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 40th percentile of 182 pain medicine providers in North Carolina.

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