Rabih Bechara, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1841240512
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $283,529 of the $453,424 with a category attached, or 62.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 84.6% of it on its own, with 35 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among critical care medicine 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 645 payments — averaging $702.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$384K
- AstraZeneca$33K
- Covidien LP$17K
- Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$5K
- Olympus America Inc.$5K
- Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH$3K
- plus $7K from 30 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $1878.44 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.
- Concordia Laboratories Inc.$11K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,7684%
- Speaking & faculty fees$45,52110%
- Travel & lodging$79,29317%
- Food & beverage$27,9996%
- Education$283,52963%
- Gifts$3150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 443 | $383,677 |
| AstraZeneca | 41 | $33,218 |
| Covidien LP | 19 | $16,952 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 23 | $5,197 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 9 | $4,567 |
| Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH | 2 | $2,588 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $1,763 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $1,200 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 6 | $824 |
| Ambu A/s | 1 | $590 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 5 | $435 |
| Spiration, Inc. | 1 | $365 |
| Novartis | 23 | $316 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $190 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 14 | $169 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 1 | $168 |
| Amgen | 10 | $148 |
| Merck | 9 | $146 |
| CSA Medical, Inc | 1 | $134 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $85 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 3 | $83 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $78 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $74 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $66 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $50 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $47 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Healthmyne, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $22 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$375,398
- IMFINZI$24,790
- superDimension$16,909
- DA VINCI SP$4,650
- Olympus Bronchoscopes$4,454
- Photofrin$4,247
- TAGRISSO$1,950
- Cook Medical Centesis & Drainage$1,200
- ALIYA SYSTEM$646
- CHARTIS CATHETER$233
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$233
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$233
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$233
- Hemospray$175
- GALAXY$168
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$116
How this compares
$453,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 190 critical care medicine providers in North Carolina.
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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 critical care medicine in Charlotte
- Alan HeffnerCharlotte$326K
- John DotyCharlotte$37K
- Alfred PapaliCharlotte$10K
- Amar PanchalCharlotte$8K
- Lacey SpanglerCharlotte$3K
- Jeffrey WallsCharlotte$2K
- Sachin HansaliaCharlotte$2K
- Luke NeilansCharlotte$2K
- Kimberly McCreaCharlotte$2K
- James RobertsCharlotte$2K
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.