Matthew Foster
Internal Medicine · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1902923253
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $56,675 of the $59,806 with a category attached, or 94.8%. Daiichi Sankyo Inc. accounts for 81.9% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $36,501 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $19 in 2023. Among internal medicine clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 35 payments — averaging $1708.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$49K
- Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$6K
- AbbVie$5K
- Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC$43
- Novo Nordisk$19
Across 26 payments — averaging $28,680 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.
- Eli Lilly$421K
- Macrogenics, Inc.$272K
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$23K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$20K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$5K
- Astellas Pharma Global Development$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$56,67595%
- Speaking & faculty fees$430%
- Travel & lodging$2,4414%
- Food & beverage$6461%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 13 | $48,980 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $5,845 |
| AbbVie | 11 | $4,918 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
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
$59,806 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Chapel Hill
- Millie LongChapel Hill$374K
- William PendergraftChapel Hill$210K
- Edward BarnesChapel Hill$171K
- Saira SheikhChapel Hill$123K
- David ClemmonsChapel Hill$96K
- Nicholas PiazzaChapel Hill$69K
- Samuel RubinsteinChapel Hill$40K
- Jennifer RogersChapel Hill$39K
- Nirmish ShahDurham$862K
- Eugene WrightFayetteville$839K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.