Obiageli Ogbata, MD
Medical Oncology · Charlotte, NCNPI 1346552692
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 133 payments — averaging $6474.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$678K
- AstraZeneca$66K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$44K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$37K
- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.$13K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$4K
- plus $19K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,29060%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,00216%
- Travel & lodging$2,0118%
- Food & beverage$4,16016%
- Education$880%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 12 | $677,608 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $66,214 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $44,100 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 1 | $36,726 |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $13,279 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $4,460 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 12 | $4,368 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 10 | $3,196 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 6 | $2,750 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $2,419 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 3 | $2,317 |
| Bayer | 3 | $955 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 5 | $470 |
| Gilead(2 entities) | 11 | $443 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $273 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $242 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 2 | $211 |
| Vertex | 1 | $140 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Advanced Accelerator Applications | 1 | $119 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Novartis | 3 | $79 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $61 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $55 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Pharmaessentia USA Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $26 |
| ADC Therapeutics America, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| GSK | 1 | $19 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$861,134 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate | 18 | $292,074 |
| MekinistTrametinib Dimethyl Sulfoxide | 17 | $255,730 |
| TafinlarDabrafenib Mesylate | 17 | $235,539 |
| EliquisApixaban | 51 | $40,849 |
| Cevimeline Hcl | 11 | $2,290 |
| Megestrol Acetate | 12 | $1,232 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 89 | $757 |
| Gabapentin | 31 | $525 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 17 | $506 |
| Potassium Chloride | 56 | $397 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 21 | $390 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 33 | $374 |
| Hydroxyurea | 18 | $330 |
| Anastrozole | 14 | $312 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 18 | $269 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisMekinist, Tafinlar | $79 | $491,26934 claims |
| AstraZenecaTagrisso | $66,214 | $292,07418 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 170 medical oncology providers in North Carolina.
Other medical oncology in Charlotte
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- Nilanjan GhoshCharlotte$6.3M
- Kathryn MilehamCharlotte$4.7M
- David RizzieriCharlotte$1.8M
- Edward KimCharlotte$1.7M
- Jimmy HwangCharlotte$1.3M
- Kimberly StricklandCharlotte$1.1M
- Daniel CarrizosaCharlotte$827K
- Mohamed SalemCharlotte$658K
- Ashley SumrallCharlotte$627K
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.