Michel Skaf, MD
Internal Medicine · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1548764137
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 57 payments — averaging $247.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$8K
- Boston Scientific$5K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$464
- Medtronic$348
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$219
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$64
- plus $79 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$7,57654%
- Travel & lodging$3,41424%
- Food & beverage$2,93921%
- Education$1811%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 9 | $7,733 |
| Boston Scientific | 25 | $5,203 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 8 | $464 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $348 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 4 | $219 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $64 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $13 |
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.
- TACTICATH$3,788
- ASSURITY$3,788
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,406
- INGEVITY$1,194
- WATCHMAN Access System$1,116
- SYMPLICITY G3$153
- Carto 3$137
- WATCHMAN FLX$119
- LifeVest$110
How this compares
$14,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 30 | $388 |
| Chlorthalidone | 12 | $221 |
| Spironolactone | 21 | $168 |
| Losartan Potassium | 16 | $132 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 13 | $130 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 18 | $112 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 15 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Chapel Hill
- Samuel RubinsteinChapel Hill$2.1M
- Tracy RoseChapel Hill$1.3M
- Millie LongChapel Hill$1.2M
- Saira SheikhChapel Hill$886K
- Matthew FosterChapel Hill$805K
- Edward BarnesChapel Hill$527K
- Jennifer RogersChapel Hill$506K
- Jennifer GoralskiChapel Hill$421K
- Manesh PatelDurham$27.2M
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$16.2M
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.