Praveen Chada, MD
Internal Medicine · Greenville, NCNPI 1437349016
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 257 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 35 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $952 and has fallen 50.4% since, to $472 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 257 payments — averaging $17.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$877
- Johnson & Johnson$541
- AbbVie$493
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$472
- AstraZeneca$423
- Pfizer$209
- plus $1K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,415100%
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
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 | 48 | $877 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 26 | $541 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 31 | $493 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 25 | $472 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 25 | $423 |
| Pfizer | 23 | $209 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 12 | $197 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 13 | $155 |
| Incyte Corporation | 6 | $109 |
| Amgen | 5 | $103 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $92 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $53 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Seagen Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Gilead | 2 | $34 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Stryker | 1 | $30 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $28 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Legend Biotech USA Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Bioxcel Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $12 |
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.
- XARELTO$125
How this compares
$4,415 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine 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.
Other internal medicine in Greenville
- Nirmish ShahDurham$862K
- Eugene WrightFayetteville$839K
- Saad UsmaniCharlotte$551K
- Bhakti PaulRaleigh$536K
- Mary KlotmanDurham$478K
- Manesh PatelDurham$435K
- Millie LongChapel Hill$374K
- Marc JohnsonCharlotte$342K
- Christina CraterRaleigh$330K
- Jamy ArdWinston Salem$293K
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.