Michael Volow
Psychiatry · Raleigh, NCNPI 1902882632
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 150 payments — averaging $16.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$487
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$442
- Johnson & Johnson$422
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$265
- Alkermes, Inc.$254
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$183
- plus $410 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,37696%
- Education$874%
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 | 45 | $487 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 18 | $442 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 26 | $422 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 14 | $265 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 13 | $254 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 6 | $183 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 11 | $160 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $54 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $38 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $19 |
| Indivior Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$2,463 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,108 psychiatry providers in North Carolina.
Other psychiatry in Raleigh
- Richard WeislerRaleigh$1.2M
- Robert MilletRaleigh$517K
- Ashwin PatkarRaleigh$170K
- Mona GuptaRaleigh$88K
- Kellie TolinRaleigh$31K
- Celso LobaoRaleigh$28K
- Elizabeth CoxRaleigh$24K
- Craig ChepkeHuntersville$4.1M
- James BarkerHickory$4.1M
- Mark ReynoldsDurham$3.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.