Paul Watkins
Gastroenterology · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1386705366
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 276 payments — averaging $3880.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$197K
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$101K
- Pfizer$83K
- Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$55K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$51K
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd$49K
- plus $535K from 54 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1250.00 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.
- AbbVie$1K
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.
How this compares
$1,070,902 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 610 gastroenterology providers in North Carolina.
Other gastroenterology in Chapel Hill
- Evan DellonChapel Hill$11.2M
- Hans HerfarthChapel Hill$2M
- Nicholas ShaheenChapel Hill$1.5M
- Alfred BarrittChapel Hill$1.3M
- Kim IsaacsChapel Hill$725K
- Ryan SartorChapel Hill$671K
- Shehzad SheikhChapel Hill$324K
- Christine HuntChapel Hill$122K
- Andrew MuirDurham$6.6M
- Manal AbdelmalekDurham$5.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.