Melissa Terchek
Internal Medicine · Wilmington, NCNPI 1639280753
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 503 payments — averaging $14.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- GSK$726
- Amgen$666
- Pfizer$620
- UCB, Inc.$521
- Johnson & Johnson$473
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,375100%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 93 | $1,428 |
| GSK | 37 | $726 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 50 | $666 |
| Pfizer | 61 | $620 |
| UCB, Inc. | 38 | $521 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 47 | $473 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 44 | $420 |
| Novartis | 25 | $384 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 23 | $375 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 12 | $309 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 12 | $226 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 7 | $211 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $155 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $118 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 6 | $97 |
| Eisai Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $70 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $63 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $21 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$7,387 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Wilmington
- Brian WebsterWilmington$3.7M
- Hector SanchezWilmington$770K
- 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
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.