Michael Worobel, DO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Concord, NCNPI 1700222809
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,906 of the $8,942 with a category attached, or 88.4%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 52.7% of the total. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 190 payments — averaging $47.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$328
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$266
- Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$237
- Nevro Corp.$220
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,03512%
- Food & beverage$7,90688%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 90 | $4,712 |
| Abbott | 43 | $2,035 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $328 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $266 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 3 | $237 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $220 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 4 | $193 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $154 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $147 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $103 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $87 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 4 | $53 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 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
$8,942 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 269 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in North Carolina.
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Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 81 | $1,027 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 93 | $732 |
| Methocarbamol | 13 | $206 |
| Meloxicam | 32 | $127 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $111 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $99 |
| Methylprednisolone | 21 | $95 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 13 | $65 |
| Diazepam | 45 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Concord
- Timothy OlivierConcord$4K
- Michael O'ConnellConcord$2K
- Siddarth ThakurConcord$2K
- Andrew SumichCharlotte$181K
- Patrick O BrienRaleigh$86K
- Elizabeth BagsbyGreenville$33K
- Krishna BhatSanford$30K
- Jasbir DhaliwalSanford$23K
- Jimmy MaliDurham$20K
- Jerome WatsonStatesville$15K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.