Meindert Niemeyer
Family Medicine · Elon, NCNPI 1225168974
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 134 payments — averaging $20.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- AbbVie$296
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$236
- Boehringer Ingelheim$203
- Grifols USA, LLC$149
- Lilly USA, LLC$113
- plus $360 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,71599%
- Education$301%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 39 | $1,388 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 29 | $296 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 19 | $236 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $203 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 6 | $149 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $113 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Merck | 3 | $52 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Novartis | 1 | $12 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SYMBICORT$307
- FARXIGA$287
- BREZTRI AEROSPHERE$281
- FASENRA$271
- BREZTRI$232
How this compares
$2,745 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other family medicine in Elon
- Barton WilliamsWilmington$17.3M
- Alexander MurrayGreensboro$13M
- Arin PiramzadianJacksonville$13M
- Jonathan WilsonHickory$12.7M
- George RaadCharlotte$7.7M
- Cecil FarringtonSalisbury$6.4M
- Christian MartinShelby$5.4M
- John EarlHickory$4.7M
- Patrick MorganteHavelock$4.6M
- Stephen JonesShelby$4.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.