RxDoctor Payments Data

Obiefuna Okoye, MD

Infectious Disease · Lumberton, NCNPI 1740234434

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.5% of the total across 525 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Viiv Healthcare Company at 25.0% of the total.

$9,592in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 525 payments — averaging $18.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Viiv Healthcare Company$2K
  • Gilead$2K
  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$969
  • AbbVie$702
  • Merck$521
  • Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$504
  • plus $3K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$1572%
  • Food & beverage$9,15795%
  • Education$2773%

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

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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.

How this compares

$9,592 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 250 infectious disease providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$149,571
Medicare patients
275
Services billed
1,484

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala143$577,637
DovatoDolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine157$492,764
SivextroTedizolid Phosphate11$115,934
SymtuzaDarunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf11$59,153
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine17$58,514
PrezcobixDarunavir/Cobicistat24$57,932
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium23$50,938
GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen12$47,763
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam11$28,135
Doxycycline Hyclate87$2,520
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav85$2,149
Rifampin25$1,724
Ethambutol Hcl20$1,670
Azithromycin25$1,426
Linezolid13$1,034

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
GileadBiktarvy, Genvoya, Descovy$1,766$653,535166 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyDovato, Juluca, Tivicay$2,398$602,216197 claims
MerckSivextro$521$115,93411 claims
Johnson & JohnsonPrezcobix$410$57,93224 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 250 infectious disease providers in North Carolina.

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