Paul Chang
Internal Medicine · Asheville, NCNPI 1790797280
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 567 payments — averaging $43.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$15K
- Johnson & Johnson$4K
- AbbVie$1K
- AstraZeneca$687
- Amgen$537
- Pfizer$470
- plus $4K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,84156%
- Food & beverage$10,81344%
- Education$1050%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 64 | $14,761 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 110 | $3,662 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 74 | $1,116 |
| AstraZeneca | 33 | $687 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 30 | $537 |
| Pfizer | 44 | $470 |
| GSK | 35 | $465 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 15 | $301 |
| Bayer | 4 | $285 |
| Merck | 19 | $269 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 28 | $263 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 18 | $249 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $190 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 9 | $158 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $155 |
| Novartis | 10 | $148 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 8 | $136 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $124 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $115 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Abbott | 5 | $79 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $75 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 3 | $45 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $23 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$24,759 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Asheville
- Manesh PatelDurham$27.2M
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$16.2M
- Christina KennellyCharlotte$15.4M
- John RubinoRaleigh$13M
- Adam DevoreDurham$11.8M
- Krishnakumar UdayakumarDurham$11M
- Sylvia ShoffnerCary$7.1M
- Wayne HarperRaleigh$6.7M
- Joseph MoranStatesville$6.7M
- April SalamaDurham$6.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.