Niharika Mettu, MD
Medical Oncology · Durham, NCNPI 1447427737
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 459 payments — averaging $8090.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genentech, Inc.$970K
- Incyte Corporation$962K
- Merck$596K
- Amgen$485K
- Pfizer$300K
- AstraZeneca$253K
- plus $148K from 10 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $1420.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$3K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Genentech, Inc. | 16 | $969,646 |
| Incyte Corporation | 354 | $961,708 |
| Merck | 19 | $596,125 |
| Amgen | 10 | $484,989 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $299,931 |
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $253,032 |
| Hoffmann-la Roche Limited | 2 | $54,844 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 12 | $41,390 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $40,216 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 5 | $10,403 |
| Biontech SE | 4 | $362 |
| BD | 1 | $310 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $126 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Eli Lilly | 1 | $79 |
How this compares
$3,713,399 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 170 medical oncology 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.
Other medical oncology in Durham
- John StricklerDurham$23.5M
- Andrew ArmstrongDurham$8.6M
- Jeffrey ClarkeDurham$7.7M
- Neal ReadyDurham$6.7M
- Michael HarrisonDurham$3.1M
- Thomas LeblancDurham$2.4M
- Brent HanksDurham$1.5M
- Jingquan JiaDurham$502K
- Sundhar RamalingamDurham$282K
- Jeffrey ShevachDurham$246K
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.