Paul Watkins
Gastroenterology · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1386705366
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $859,120 of the $876,203 with a category attached, or 98.1%. It is spread thinly across 60 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 11.5%. Among gastroenterology clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 262 payments — averaging $3344.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$101K
- Pfizer$83K
- Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$55K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$51K
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd$49K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$47K
- plus $490K from 54 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $13,063 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.
- Bayer$172K
- AbbVie$15K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$859,12098%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,9501%
- Travel & lodging$8,3771%
- Food & beverage$1,7560%
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.
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
$876,203 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$431K
- Alfred BarrittChapel Hill$210K
- Nicholas ShaheenChapel Hill$145K
- Christine HuntChapel Hill$122K
- Hans HerfarthChapel Hill$78K
- Simon GrayChapel Hill$48K
- Jasmine BarrowChapel Hill$22K
- Stephen DealCharlotte$945K
- Fred FowlerCharlotte$932K
- Nilesh LodhiaCharlotte$735K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.